A person who commits an offence under Article 139 in circumstances where:
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 141
Aggravated Corruption by or With an Agent · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
the corruption results in the commission of a criminal act, or has as its intended purpose the commission of a criminal act with a severer penalty than permitted under Article 139-140;
the matter or transaction in relation to which the offence was committed was a contract or a proposal for a contract with the Government or any other public body; or
the offence seriously harmed, or posed a threat to seriously harm, the security of the State or the national economy,
is guilty of aggravated corruption by an agent (aggravated corruption of an agent), punishable in the following order of graduation:
an offence under this sub-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 sub-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 sub-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 sub-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 who commits an offence in circumstances respectively similar to those enumerated in sub-Article (1) is guilty of aggravated corruption with an agent (aggravated corrupting of an agent), punishable in the following order of graduation:
an offence under this sub-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 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years;
an offence under this sub-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 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 sub-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 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 sub-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 5 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and not more than 13 years.