'Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence' in document 'Finland - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 15 - Offences against the administration of justice

Section 5 - Attempted incitement to a false statement

A person who attempts to incite another person to commit an offence referred to in sections 1 - 3 shall be sentenced for attempted incitement to a false statement to a fine or to imprisonment for at most one year.

Chapter 15 - Offences against the administration of justice

Section 9 - Threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice

A person who unlawfully

(1) by violence or threats prevents or attempts to prevent another person from making a statement as a witness, expert witness, other person to be heard or a party in a trial, criminal investigation, police inquiry or other comparable official proceedings, or influences or attempts to influence the contents of the statement, or
(2) employs violence or threats violence against another person or a person related to him or her in the manner referred to in section 10, subsection
2 because of a statement made by him or her in the hearing referred to above,

shall be sentenced, unless a more severe penalty for the act has been provided elsewhere in the law, for threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice to a fine or to imprisonment for at most three years.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence