Version status: Published
Version date: 3 May 2023 - onwards
Article 9 Misappropriation
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the following conduct is punishable as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally:
(a) the committing, disbursing, appropriation or use by a public official of property whose management is directly or indirectly entrusted to him contrary to the purpose for which it was intended;
(b) the committing, disbursing, appropriation or use, in the course of economic, financial, business or commercial activities, by a person who directs or works, in any capacity, in a private sector entity, of any property whose management is directly or indirectly entrusted to him contrary to the purpose for which it was intended.