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,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 131
Corrupting a Public Official · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of corrupting a public official, punishable in the following order of graduation:
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.