The Crime of Impersonation of a Position and Job Title

Abstract

Impersonation of a job or job title is appearing before people and others and claiming or impersonating a job title, for the purpose of deceiving them and defrauding them with an image that is not real, as the person dealing with him believes that he is dealing with the person who has been impersonated who is doing the same practices that the real employee does. The impersonator does this for many reasons and purposes, and it constitutes a crime according to the provisions of the law as soon as he appears in public and to the outside world, i.e. he is seen by others or dealt with on the basis of the job and title that he appears in before them. The Iraqi legislator addressed in the current Iraqi Penal Code No. 111 of 1969 and its amendments the provisions of the crime of impersonation of positions and titles in three articles ( 260 - 261 – 262 ), and the legislator made amendments to them, the most important of which was the issuance of Resolution No. 160 of 1983, which punished with imprisonment anyone who impersonated a public position or a position in the armed forces or internal security forces or security or intelligence services or interfered in them or carried out any of their work or requirements without right and without an official capacity or permission from a competent authority. It is considered an aggravating circumstance if the perpetrator obtained material gains by committing any of the aforementioned crimes referred to in ( Article 261  ) which included more than one crime.