BOOK IV
FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST THE NATION, THE STATE AND THE PUBLIC PEACE

TITLE III
VIOLATION OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE

CHAPTER IV
PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE

SECTION II
OBSTRUCTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE

ARTICLE 434-9
(Act no. 2000-595 of 30 June 2000 Article 1 Official Journal 1 July 2000)

The direct or indirect request or unlawful acceptance of offers, promises, donations, gifts or advantages, at any time, by a judge or prosecutor, a juror or any other member of court of law, an arbitrator or an expert appointed either by a court or by the parties, or by a person appointed by a judicial authority to carry out conciliation or mediation, in return for performing or abstaining from performing an act of his office, is punished by ten years' imprisonment and a fine of
€150,000.

Yielding to the solicitations of a person described in the previous paragraph, or to a proposal of any offer, promise, donation, gift or reward with a view to obtaining from such a person the performance or non-performance of an act pertaining to his office at any time, is subject to the same penalties.

Where the offence referred to under the first paragraph is committed by a judge or prosecutor in favour or against a person who is being criminally prosecuted, the penalty is increased to fifteen years' criminal imprisonment and a fine of €225,000.

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:
(f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties