'Common purpose' in document 'Armenia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 37. The notion of complicity.

Willful joint participation of two or more persons in a willful crime is considered complicity.

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 41. Committal of crime by a group of individuals, by an organized group or by a criminal association.

2. A crime is considered committed by a group of individuals with prior agreement, if the co-perpetrators who participated in the crime, prior to the commencement of the crime, agreed to commit the crime jointly.

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 41. Committal of crime by a group of individuals, by an organized group or by a criminal association.

3. A crime is considered committed by an organized group, if it was committed by a stable group of persons who previously united to commit one or more crimes.

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 41. Committal of crime by a group of individuals, by an organized group or by a criminal association.

4. A crime is considered committed by a criminal association, if it was committed by a consolidated organized group created to commit grave or particularly grave crimes, or by uniting an organized group for the same purposes, as well as if it was committed by a member (members) of the association to achieve his criminal purposes, as well as, committal of a crime by a person not considered a member of the association, by instruction of the criminal association.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime