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

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER I - DEFINING CRITERIA OF PUNISHMENT

Article 10
(Activity on behalf of another party)

When a person acts as a senior executive of a legal person or de facto association, or as the representative of another party, the fact that the conditions, characteristics or relationships cited in the standard definition of a particular offence do not pertain to him personally but rather to the person on whose behalf he is acting do not mean that he is not punishable.

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 26
(Provocation)
Anyone who, directly and with wrongful intent, causes someone else to perform a deed shall be punished as an author of that deed provided that the deed has begun to be carried out.

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:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible