'Abetting' in document 'Cape Verde - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER II - CHARACTERISTICS OF A PUNISHABLE DEED

Article 25
(Authorship)
The author of a deed is anyone who carries out the deed, whether directly himself or through someone else used as his agent, or who participates directly in the carrying out of the deed, or assists the carrying out of the deed by performing an act without which the deed would not have been accomplished.

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER II - CHARACTERISTICS OF A PUNISHABLE DEED

Article 27
(Complicity)
1. Anyone who, with wrongful intent and in circumstances not covered in the preceding articles, provides material or moral support, with acts carried out prior to or simultaneous with the carrying out of a wrongful deed by someone else, is an accomplice.

2.An accomplice shall be subject to the same penalties as an author, and they may be freely lessened in accordance with the terms and limits applicable to an attempted offence.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission