'Extensive appropriation of property - IAC' in document 'Hungary - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

Chapter XI
Crimes Against Humanity

Title II
War Crimes

War-time Looting

Section 159

(1) The person who loots civilian goods in an operational or occupied territory, or causes grave detriment to the population by the enforcement of services or in another manner, - unless a graver crime is realized -, commits a felony, and shall be punishable with imprisonment from two years to eight years.

(2) The punishment shall be imprisonment from five years to ten years, if the crime is committed in an armed manner or in a group.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly