{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:131","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Corrupting a Public Official","number":"131","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 3. — Public Corruption and Bribery"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"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,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/115/?article=131&paragraph=p1#article-131-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of corrupting a public official, punishable in the following order of graduation:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/115/?article=131&paragraph=p1-tail#article-131-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p1a","number":"a","parentId":"p1","text":"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;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/115/?article=131&paragraph=p1a#article-131-p1a"}]},{"id":"p1b","number":"b","parentId":"p1","text":"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;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/115/?article=131&paragraph=p1b#article-131-p1b"}]},{"id":"p1c","number":"c","parentId":"p1","text":"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;","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1c","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/115/?article=131&paragraph=p1c#article-131-p1c"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":116,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/116/?article=131&paragraph=p1c#article-131-p1c"}]},{"id":"p1d","number":"d","parentId":"p1","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p1d","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":116,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/116/?article=131&paragraph=p1d#article-131-p1d"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/131/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":116,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/116/?article=131&paragraph=p2#article-131-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}