Article 77 E Any person who is commissioned to negotiate with a foreign government concerning any of the State's affairs, and deliberately, negotiates against its interest, shall be sentenced to permanent hard labor. Article 77 F Any person who, without permission from the government, groups soldiers or embarks on another hostile act against a foreign country, which is bound to expose the Egyptian state to the danger of war or the rupture of political relations, imprisonment shall be the punishment. If the deed results in the outbreak of war or the severance of political relations, temporary hard labor shall be the punishment. Article 78 Whoever asks for himself or a third party, or accepts or takes, even by intermediation, from a foreign country or from one operating in its interest, money, or any other benefit, or a promise to get something of that, with the aim of committing an act prejudicial to a national interest of the country, shall be sentenced to temporary hard labor and to a fine of not less than one thousand pounds and not exceeding what he was given or promised to be given. The penalty shall be permanent hard labor and a fine of not less than one thousand pounds and not exceeding what he has given or promised to be given, if the offender is a public official, or a person charged with a public service, or conferred with a public representative quality, or if he commits the crime in time of war. Whoever gives, offers, or promises something of the foregoing, with the aim of committing a deed harmful to a national interest of the country, shall be punished with the same penalty. Whoever mediates in committing any of the aforementioned crimes shall also be punished with the same penalty. If the demand, acceptance, offer, promise, or mediation is in writing, the crime shall be complete upon issuing, the letter. Article 78 A