A person who takes property belonging to another, with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it is guilty of theft or property, punishable in the following order of graduation:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 328
Theft of Property · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 2 petty serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas;
an offence under this Article for an amount between 101 and 2,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished Class 1 petty serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas;
an offence under this Article for an amount between 2,001 and 10,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years;
an offence under this Article for an amount between 10,001 and 100,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years;
an offence under this Article for an amount between 100,001 and 1,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;
an offence under this Article for an amount between 1,000,001 and 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;
an offence under this Article for an amount exceeding 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years.
Theft by a relative may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim.
The absence of a charge against a relative shall not act as a bar to proceedings against secondary participants who are not relatives.