Article 131

A person who, directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises any undue advantage or anything of value to any public official or person selected to be a public official, or offers or promises a public official or person selected to be a public official to give any undue advantage or anything of value to any other person or entity, with the intent to influence any official act or to induce a public official or person selected to be a public official to do or not to do any act in his official capacity,

an offence under this Article for an amount not exceeding 100,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years;

an offence under this Article for an amount between 100,001 and 1,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years;

an offence under this Article for an amount between 1,000,001 and 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years;

an offence under this Article for an amount exceeding 5,000,000 Nakfas, or any other benefit calculated to be equivalent to that amount, shall be punished as a Class 4 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 13 years and not more than 16 years.

A person may not be convicted of both corrupting a public official under this Article and corruption by a public official under Article 130 in regards to a single transaction.