English
of Duties.
(1) Any public servant who with intent to obtain for himself or to
procure for another an undue material advantage;
a) appropriates to himself objects, legal instruments,
securities, cash, chattels or any consumable thing
whatsoever in the course of a search, seizure or process of
confiscation, public auction, sequestration or distrait, or
during any other similar procedure; or
b) misappropriates such objects or securities which have
been entrusted to him or which have come into his hands
by virtue of or in the course of his duties,
is punishable, according to the circumstances of the case, with
simple imprisonment for not less than one year, or with rigorous
imprisonment not exceeding ten years and fine.
2) Where the extent of advantage obtained, the official capacity or
powers of the person corrupted or the extent of the harm to
private, public or State interest renders the case of particular
gravity,
the punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment from seven years
to fifteen years and fine not exceeding thirty thousand Birr
(3) Where two or more of the circumstances mentioned in sub-article
(2) are present concurrently,
the punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment from ten years to
twenty-five years and fine not exceeding fifty thousand Birr.
