A person who intentionally:
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 169
Obstruction of Justice · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
interferes with or prevents a law enforcement officer from making a lawful arrest or otherwise carrying out lawful duties;
destroys, alters or in any way tampers with physical evidence in order to impair its availability in any criminal investigation or proceeding; or
persuades, threatens, or otherwise induces a witness not to testify or provide evidence in any criminal investigation or proceeding,
is guilty of obstruction of justice, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.