{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:134","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Defenses Not Allowed","number":"134","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/134/","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":"lead","number":"","text":"It shall not be a defense to an offence under Articles 130-133 that the other person who took or was offered the reward or inducement did not do, or did not even contemplate doing, the action that was the object of the reward or inducement, or that he was not competent or authorized to do the action.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/134/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":119,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/119/?article=134&paragraph=lead#article-134-lead"}]}],"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."}