If the custodian or the depositary of the information has acted by recklessness, negligence or
carelessness, the penalty is imprisonment from five to ten years.
Article 151: Is punished by imprisonment of five to twenty years, any person who, without
intent to commit treason or espionage and while he was neither the custodian nor the depositary:
1 ° misappropriates information, objects, documents or processes kept secret in the interest of
national defense or the knowledge of which may lead to the discovery of a secret of national
defense ;
2° commits one of the offences provided for in the first paragraph of the preceding article.
Article 152: Any person who, knowingly and without prior authorization from the competent
authority, delivers or communicates to a person acting on behalf of a foreign power or enterprise
either an invention of interest to national defense or information, studies or manufacturing
processes relating to such an invention or to an industrial application of interest to national
defense shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to twenty years.
Article 153: Any person who, without intent to commit treason or espionage, brings to the
knowledge of an unentitled person or of a foreign power or enterprise any information, studies or
manufacturing processes relating to an invention of this kind or to an industrial application of
interest to the national defense, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of one to five
years.
Article 154: Shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to twenty years, anyone who:
1° enters under a disguise or a false name, or by hiding his status or nationality, into military
installation or a station, works, barracks or cantonments, into a war building or a commercial
building used for the national defense, into an aircraft or a train or into an military vehicle, into a
military or maritime facility of any kind, or into an installation or construction site of interest to
the national defense;
2° even without disguising himself, or without hiding his name, his status or his nationality, uses
a hidden means of correspondence or remote transmission of any kind likely to undermine
national defense;
3° willfully flies over Ivorian territory in a foreign aircraft without being authorized to do so by a
diplomatic convention or by the Ivorian authorities;
4° in a prohibited zone protected by the military authority, carries out drawings, photographs,
surveys or topographical operations in or around places, works, stations or facilities of interest to
the national defense without the authorization of the military authority;
5° disregards a prohibition and stays around facilities and sites enumerated in the preceding
paragraph;
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