Notwithstanding the provisions of Article (225), the court shall adjudicate, at the request of the Public Prosecutor or sua sponte, to extenuate the penalty or replace it with a fine not less than (100,000) one hundred thousand AED and not exceeding (10,000,000) ten million AED, or to exempt therefrom, for the perpetrator who provides information to judicial or administrative authorities on any crime against the State's external or internal security, or on crimes considered by other penal codes to be against the security of the State, whenever this leads to discovering such crimes or their perpetrators, or to convicting them there or to arresting one of them. The Public Prosecutor may solely and exclusively request that the court hearing the case to apply the preceding paragraph to cases other than those stipulated therein if the request is related to State's sovereign interest or any other national interest. If a judgment is issued on the action, the Public Prosecutor may submit the request to the court that issued judgment, before or during the execution thereof.
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