PART I

GENERAL PART

BOOK I

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

TITLE I

CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS SCOPE

CHAPTER II

SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF THE LAW

Section II.- Conditions as to Place

Sub-section I.- Principal Application

Article 13.- Crimes Committed against Ethiopia Outside Its Territory.

This Code shall apply to any person who outside Ethiopia has committed one of the crimes against the State of Ethiopia, its safety or integrity, its institutions, essential interests or currency as defined in Book III, Title I, Chapter I, and under Title V of this Book (Art. 238 -260 and Art. 355-374) .

PART I

GENERAL PART

BOOK I

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

TITLE I

CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS SCOPE

CHAPTER II

SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF THE LAW

Section II.- Conditions as to Place

Sub-section II.- Subsidiary Application

Article 18.- Other Crimes Committed Outside Ethiopia .

(1) This Code shall also apply to any person who has committed a crime outside Ethiopia against an Ethiopian national or to any Ethiopian national who has committed outside Ethiopia a crime of another kind than those specified in the foregoing Articles, if the criminal was not tried in the foreign country for the crime, provided that:
(a) the act to be tried is prohibited by the law of the State where it was committed and by Ethiopian law; and
(b) it is of sufficient gravity under the latter law to justify extradition .