If any of the executives were found guilty, they could be jailed for up to seven years.
Korean prosecutors have demanded that the president's son be jailed for seven years for bribery and tax evasion.
Violators of the Code can be jailed for up to six months or fined a maximum of 300, 000 yen.
An ordinary citizen could be jailed for stealing public property worth considerably less.
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Rights activists have long urged Pakistan to reform its blasphemy laws, under which a person can be jailed for life for desecrating the Koran.
Mr Khodorkovsky has been accused of multiple charges of fraud and tax evasion, and if found guilty could be jailed for up to 10 years.
Without giving comment, the US Supreme Court announced it was allowing a lower court's ruling that the two journalists should be jailed for contempt of court to stand.
Moreover, barras bravas (hooligans), whose penchant for vandalism and violence has discouraged law-abiding fans from attending matches, can be jailed for up to ten years for using explosives.
If a person converts another by the use of force or by inducement or by any other fraudulent means , they can be jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.
He called on the government to change the law so that people could be jailed "for fixing oil prices" and for any cash recovered in fines, if the companies are found guilty, to be returned to motorists.
It took some 20 years for children who had been abused to be heard, and for their abusers to be jailed.
In August 2008, a 16-year-old boy - who could not be named for legal reasons - was jailed for four years at Glasgow Sheriff Court over his role in disturbance.
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Another law allowing adulterous wives to be jailed prescribes mere fines for errant husbands.
Mir Ali Jattak, a former minister of Balochistan province, is the seventh politician to be jailed in recent days for fraudulently claiming to hold a degree.
People convicted but not jailed for rioting could be stripped of benefits under plans considered by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
Ms Cooper also announced a future Labour government would legislate to ensure those responsible for financial crimes can be jailed.
It comes as a surprise to most Americans that the employee most likely to be fired, fined, disciplined or even jailed for something said in social media is a school teacher, followed by nurses and healthcare workers, with public employees (firefighters, police officers, and court clerks) close behind.
Under the law eventually passed in 1995, abortion is judged in principle an offence for which doctor and patient can be jailed.
Mexico's Supreme Court has said a Frenchwoman jailed for 60 years for kidnap should not be freed immediately.
Sunday's final will be an emotional day for King whose mother Sandra was jailed for life last October after being found guilty of murder.
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But even as some degree of liberation descends upon the Egyptian film industry, there are reminders about the boundaries of tastes - a lesbian kiss in Khaled Youssef's latest film "Until Things Get Better" brought calls for the director and both actresses to be jailed on moral grounds.
Those responsible for posts which "display contempt" for Islam or any other religion could also be jailed.
Gosain also admitted eight counts of voyeurism and was jailed for four months for each charge, to be served concurrently.
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