A person who with intent to obtain, or to procure for a third person, an unjustified enrichment, appropriates:
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 346
Misappropriation of Property of another · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
the property of another that has come into his possession by mistake, accident, the operation of natural forces such as wind or water, or in any other manner independently of the will of the owner; or
an animal that is the property of another, which has strayed into his possession,
is guilty of misappropriation, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
Misappropriation may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim.