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(1) Any public servant, being or having been in a public office, who:
a) maintains a standard of living above that which is
commensurate with the official income from his
present or past employment or other means; or
b) is in control of pecuniary resources or property
disproportionate to the official income from his
present or past employment or other means,
shall, unless he gives a satisfactory explanation to the
Court .is to how he was able to maintain such a
standard of living or how such pecuniary resources or
property came under his control, be punished, without
prejudice to the confiscation of the property or the
restitution to the third party, with simple
imprisonment or fine, or in serious cases, with
rigorous imprisonment not exceeding five years and
fine.
(2) Where the Court, during proceeding under sub-article (l)(b), is
satisfied that there is reason to believe that any person, owing to
his closeness to the accused or other circumstances, was holding
pecuniary resource or property in trust for or otherwise on behalf
of the accused, such resources or property shall, in the absence
of evidence to the contrary, ho presumed to have been under the
control of the accused.
