What penalties are envisioned for offences related to unlawful conduct of campaign financing?
Egypt
Law No. 38/1972 OnThe People’s Assembly
(amended by decree law 123/2011).
Article 11
Election campaigning shall comply with the principles of the Constitutionand the law, as well as the following rules:
1. Respecting the private life of any candidate.
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6. Prohibitingfunds received from abroad, from a foreign person, from a foreign orinternational entity, or from its representative in Egypt from being spent onelection campaigning, or giving such funds to voters to refrain from expressingtheir views or expressing them in a certain manner.
The foregoing rules shall exist in addition to the rulesconcerning the means and methods regulating the election campaign, includingthe maximum campaign expenditure limit that may not be exceeded and for which adecision shall be issued by the High Elections Commission and published in twomass circulation dailies.
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A penalty ofconfinement to jail for a period of not less than one year and a fine of notless than fifty thousand pounds and not exceeding one hundred thousand poundsin addition to confiscating the funds received shall be inflicted on whoevercontravenes the provisions of item (6) of the rules referred to in the presentarticle.
Law no.174/2005 (amended by decree law 108/2011) regulating the Presidential Election
http://www.democracy-reporting.org/files/law_regulating_the_presidential_elections.pdf
Article (48):
A penalty of imprisonment for a period of no less than one year togetherwith a fine of no less than EGP 5.000 and no more than EGP 20.000, or eithershall be imposed on the following:
1. Any person who spends on election propaganda amounts other than thosedeposited on his bank account referred to in Article (26) hereof or spends thefunds deposited on this account on other purposes than election propaganda.
2. Any person whose expenditure exceeds the maximum amount allowed forelection propaganda.
