shall be punished by temporary imprisonment with hard labor and a fine equal to the amount he / she embezzled. 2. Whoever embezzles money which belongs to banks or specialized lending institutions or public shareholding companies and was an employee of one of such institutions shall be punished by the penalty stipulated in the previous paragraph. 3. If the act stipulated in the previous two paragraphs was committed through the forging of cheques or bonds or through inserting incorrect writings into books and registrars or through the falsification or erasing or destroying of accounts or papers or other documents and generally through any deceptive act which aims at preventing the discovery of embezzlement, the perpetrator shall be punished by temporary imprisonment with hard labor for a period no less than five years and a fine equal to what has been embezzled. 4. The perpetrator partner and the accessory shall be punished by the same penalty. Article (175) Whoever is entrusted with selling or buying or administrating movable or immovable property for the benefit of the state or a public administration and he/she committed a fraud while performing one of these functions or violated the rules governing such function either to obtain benefits for himself or to benefit or harm one of the parties involved or to harm the administration, shall be punished with temporary imprisonment with hard labor and a fine equals the amount of harm caused. Article (176) The following persons shall be punished by imprisonment from six months to two years and a fine no less than ten dinars (JD10): 1. Any public official who gained a personal benefit from one of the transactions related to the administration he/she is employed by, whether he / she did this directly or through an imposter or through the use of forged documents. 2. All public administration representatives, police officers, and other public police personnel who publicly, or through the use of forged documents or through the use of an impostor, traded in grains or other basic necessity items in the area of their official post, provided that such materials are not the product of their personal properties. Article (177) 1. The penalties stipulated in article (174) shall be reduced by half if the harm caused or the benefit gained by the perpetrator was very minimal or if he/she fully reimbursed the harm before the case is referred to the court. 2. If the payback and reimbursement happened during the trial and before a judgment is issued, even if it was not a final judgment, then the penalty has to be reduced by one fourth. 3. In all the before mentioned crimes stipulated in this chapter if the court took into consideration the discretionary mitigating factors, it has no power to reduce the penalty by more than half. (3) Assaults on Freedom Article (178)