The Scope of Criminal Liability of Legal Entity in the Islamic Penal Code

The achievements of this paper show that although the legislature has taken a positive step to fill the gap of the Islamic Penal Code, it has not acted perfectly in identifying the criminal liability of legal entity. Articles revolving the issue in the new Islamic Penal Code are fully ambiguous and synopsis which have led legal community to criticize and put the criminal courts in real trouble for making decisions. It is necessary that legislature take some action in order to solve the problem. Legislature has adopted the stricter theory regarding the identification of legal entity (including the legal entities of public law and legal entities of private law). These theories are theory of ‘respondent superior’ and ‘brain theory’. However, sentencing the legal entities to blood money is out of this rule and the first theory has been adopted.