The creditor who has stipulated, either with the debtor or with any other persons, particular advantages by reason of his vote in the deliberations of the body of creditors, shall be liable to the penalties provided for in the preceding article.
Penal Code
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Any trustee in bankruptcy who renders himself guilty of malversation in his management shall be liable to the penalties provided for in article 549.
Accomplices to simple or fraudulent bankruptcy shall be liable to the same penalties as the principal offender, even if they do not have the status of trader.
In all the cases provided for in this section, the offender may, in addition, be struck with the prohibition to exercise the profession, laid down by article 87.
All judgments and decisions of conviction rendered by virtue of this section shall, at the expense of the convicted person, be posted and published in a newspaper authorised to receive legal notices. 270 - cf. supra note corresponding to article 111. - - SECTION V OFFENCES AGAINST IMMOVABLE PROPERTY (Article 570)
Whoever by surprise or fraud deprives another of immovable property shall be liable to imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 200271 to 500 dirhams. If the dispossession took place either at night, or with threats or violence, or by means of scaling or breaking in, or by several persons, or with an apparent or concealed…
Whoever knowingly conceals all or part of things removed, misappropriated or obtained by means of a crime or a misdemeanour shall be liable to imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 200273 to 2.000 dirhams, unless the act is punishable by a criminal penalty as constituting an act of complicity in a crime provided for in…
In the case where the penalty applicable to the perpetrators of the offence by means of which the things were removed, misappropriated or obtained is a 271 - Ibid. 272 - Ibid. 273 - Ibid. - - criminal penalty, receivers incur the same penalty if they are convicted of having had, at the time of the receiving, knowledge of the cir…
In the event of conviction to a correctional penalty, the person guilty of receiving may, in addition, be subject to disqualification for at least five years and at most ten years from one or more of the rights mentioned in article 40 of this Code.
1275 The following offences constitute money laundering when committed intentionally: 252 - Section added by article one of Law No. 43-05 on combating money laundering, promulgated by dahir No. 1-07-79 of 28 rabii I 1428 (17 April 2007), as amended and supplemented, Bulletin Officiel No. 5522 of 15 rabii II 1428 (3 May 2007), p.…
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Any person who publishes on Moroccan territory writings, musical compositions, drawings, paintings or any other production, printed or engraved in whole or in part, in disregard of the laws and regulations relating to authors' property, is guilty of infringement and punishable by a fine of 200281 to 10.000 dirhams, whether these…
Any person who reproduces, represents or disseminates, by any b) The manufacture or importation, for sale or rental, of a device or means capable of enabling or facilitating the reception of a coded programme broadcast or communicated in any other manner to the public, by persons not authorised to receive it; c) The removal or m…
If the person guilty of infringement habitually engages in the acts referred to in the two preceding articles, the penalty shall be imprisonment from three months to two years and a fine of 500 to 20.000 dirhams. In the event of recidivism, after a conviction pronounced for a habitual offence, the penalties of imprisonment and f…
In all cases provided for by articles 575 to 577, the guilty parties are furthermore sentenced to confiscation of sums equal to the amount of the shares of revenue produced by the unlawful reproduction, representation or dissemination, as well as to confiscation of all equipment specially installed for the purpose of unlawful re…
In the cases provided for by articles 575 to 578, the equipment or counterfeit copies, as well as the revenue or shares of revenue that gave rise to confiscation, are handed over to the author or his successors in title to compensate them for the harm they have suffered; the surplus of the compensation to which they may be entit…
Whoever voluntarily sets fire to buildings, dwellings, lodges, tents, cabins even mobile ones, ships, boats, warehouses, construction sites, when they are inhabited or used for habitation and generally to inhabited places or places used for habitation, whether they belong or do not belong to the perpetrator of the crime, is puni…
Whoever, when such property does not belong to him, voluntarily sets fire: Either to buildings, dwellings, lodges, tents, cabins even mobile ones, ships, boats, warehouses, construction sites, when they are neither inhabited nor used for habitation; Or to vehicles or aircraft not containing persons; Or to forests, woods, coppice…
Whoever, by setting or causing to be set fire to one of the properties listed in the preceding article and belonging to him, voluntarily causes any harm to another, is punished by imprisonment for five to ten years. - - The same penalty is incurred by the person who sets the fire on the order of the owner.
Whoever, by voluntarily setting fire to any objects, whether belonging to him or not, and placed in such a way as to communicate the fire, has set fire by such communication to one of the properties belonging to another listed in article 581, is punished by imprisonment for five to ten years.
In all cases provided for by articles 581 to 583, if the intentionally caused fire has resulted in the death of one or more persons, the perpetrator of the fire is punished by death. If the fire has caused injuries or permanent infirmities, the penalty is that of life imprisonment.
The penalties laid down in articles 580 to 584 are applicable, according to the distinctions provided for in the said articles, to those who voluntarily destroy, in whole or in part, or attempt to destroy, by the effect of a mine or any other explosive substances, buildings, dwellings, lodges, tents, cabins, ships, boats, vehicl…
Whoever voluntarily destroys or attempts to destroy, by the effect of a mine or any other explosive substances, public or private roads, dikes, dams or causeways, bridges, port or industrial installations, is punished by imprisonment for twenty to thirty years.
Whoever voluntarily places an explosive device on a public or private road is punished by imprisonment for twenty to thirty years. - -
If the offences provided for in articles 586 or 587 have resulted in the death of one or more persons, the offender is punished by death; if the offence has caused injuries or permanent infirmities, the penalty is that of life imprisonment.
Any of the offenders of one of the offences listed in articles 585 to 587 who, before the commission of that crime and before any proceedings, has informed the administrative or judicial authorities thereof and revealed the identity of the perpetrators, or who, even after proceedings have begun, has procured the arrest of the ot…
Whoever voluntarily destroys or overturns, by any means whatsoever, in whole or in part, buildings, bridges, dikes, dams, causeways, port or industrial installations that he knew to belong to another, or who causes either the explosion of a steam engine or the destruction of a motor forming part of an industrial installation, is…
Whoever, with a view to causing an accident or obstructing or hindering traffic, places on a road or public path an object obstructing the passage of vehicles or employs any means whatsoever to obstruct their movement, is punished by imprisonment for five to ten years. If the offence provided for in the preceding paragraph has r…
Except in the cases provided for in article 276, whoever wilfully burns or destroys in any manner registers, minutes or original acts of the public authority, securities, notes, bills of exchange, commercial or bank instruments containing or operating an obligation, disposition or discharge, shall be punished by reclusion for fi…
Shall incur the penalties prescribed by the preceding article, according to the distinctions provided therein, unless the act constitutes a more serious offence, whoever knowingly destroys, removes, conceals, hides or alters a public or private document likely to facilitate the investigation of crimes or offences, the discovery of evidence or the punishment of their perpetrator.
The perpetrators of pillage or devastation of foodstuffs, goods or other movable property, committed in a gathering or gang and by open force, shall be punished by reclusion for ten to twenty years, unless the act constitutes a more serious offence, such as one of the crimes provided for in articles 201 and 203. However, those w…
Whoever wilfully destroys, pulls down, mutilates or degrades: Either monuments, statues, paintings or other objects intended for public utility or decoration and erected or placed by the public authority or with its authorisation; Or monuments, statues, paintings or any works of art placed in museums, places reserved for worship…
Whoever, by means of a corrosive product or by any other means, wilfully deteriorates goods, materials, engines or any instruments used for manufacture, shall be punished by imprisonment for one month to two years and a fine of 200284 to 1.000 dirhams. If the perpetrator of the offence is a worker of the factory or an employee of the commercial house, the penalty of imprisonment shall be two to five years.
Whoever, except in the cases provided for in the dahir forming the Forestry Code285, devastates standing crops or plants grown naturally or by human labour, shall be punished by imprisonment for two to five years and a fine of 200286 to 250 dirhams.
Whoever, except in the cases provided for in articles 518 and 519, cuts grain or fodder that he knew belonged to another, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to three months and a fine of 200287 to 250 dirhams. If it concerns green grain, the imprisonment shall be two to six months.
Whoever, except in the cases provided for in the dahir forming the Forestry Code, cuts down one or several trees that he knew belonged to another, cuts, mutilates or barks these trees in such a way as to cause them to die, or destroys one or 283 - Ibid. 284 - Ibid. 285 - Dahir of 10 October 1917 (20 hidja 1335) on the conservati…
Whoever destroys, breaks or renders unserviceable agricultural instruments, livestock pens or fixed or mobile guards' huts shall be punished by imprisonment for one month to one year and a fine of 200290 to 250 dirhams.
Whoever poisons draft, riding or pack animals, horned cattle, sheep, goats or other livestock, guard dogs or fish in ponds, fishponds or reservoirs shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years and a fine of 200291 to 500 dirhams.
Whoever, without necessity, kills or mutilates one of the animals mentioned in the preceding article or any domestic animal, in the places, buildings, enclosures and dependencies or on the lands of which the master of the killed or mutilated animal is owner, tenant or farmer, shall be punished by imprisonment for two to six mont…
Whoever, without necessity, kills or mutilates one of the animals mentioned in article 601 shall be punished: If the offence was committed in places of which the offender is owner, tenant or farmer, by imprisonment for six days to two months and a fine of 200293 to 250 dirhams or by only one of these two penalties; If the offence was committed in another place, by imprisonment for fifteen days to three months and a fine of 200294 to 300 dirhams.
In the cases provided for by articles 597 to 602, if the act was committed either during the night or out of hatred towards a public official and by reason of his functions, the offender shall be punished by the maximum penalty provided for by the article punishing the offence.
In the cases provided for by articles 596, 597 and 601, the offender may, in addition, be sentenced for at least five years and at most ten years to the deprivation of one or more of the rights mentioned in article 40 of this Code and to prohibition of residence.
Whosoever, wholly or partly, fills in ditches, destroys fences, of whatever materials they may be made, cuts or pulls up living or dry hedges, moves or removes boundary stones or any other marks planted or recognized to establish the boundaries between different properties, shall be punished by imprisonment of one month to one y…
bis Whosoever, being on board an aircraft in flight, seizes that aircraft or exercises control over it, by violence or by any other means, shall be punished by reclusion of ten to twenty years. Whosoever intentionally exercises threats or violence against the flight personnel on board an aircraft in flight, with a view to divert…