A person who commits any fraud as defined in Article 347 or a related crime in this Chapter:
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 348
Aggravated Fraud · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
as part of a licensed or authorized profession or business;
by a widespread scheme causing considerable damage to the public;
against infants or young persons, or persons incapable of understanding;
where the offender habitually commits the offence of fraud;
in a proceeding to register title to property;
where it has been committed against the military, a public administration or an institution providing public service; or
where the offender having so foreseen, has induced his victim to ruin or suicide by his acts or their repetition,
is guilty of the offence of aggravated fraud, punishable in the following order of graduation:
an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100,000 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 100,001 and 1,000,000 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 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 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 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 4 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 13 years and not more than 16 years.