THE SPECIAL PART

Chapter 15. Crimes Against Justice and the Order for Carrying Out Punishment

Article 347. Coercion to Provide Evidence

1. Coercion of a suspect, defendant, a victim, or a witness to give evidence, or coercion of an expert to present findings, by way of threatening, blackmail, or other illegal actions on behalf of a given investigator or a person carrying out an inquest, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period up to three years.

THE SPECIAL PART

Chapter 15. Crimes Against Justice and the Order for Carrying Out Punishment

Article 354. Subornation or Coercion to Giving False Evidence or to Evasion of Giving Evidence, or False Findings, or Incorrect Translation

1. Subornation of a witness or victim for the purposes of the giving of false evidence by them, or of an expert for the purpose of the issuing by him of false findings, as well as of a translator for the purposes of making by him of an incorrect translation, -

shall be punished by a fine in an amount up to one thousand monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period up to ten months, or by restriction of freedom for a period up to three years, or by imprisonment for the same period.

2. Coercion of a witness or a victim to give false evidence, or of an expert to issue false findings, or a translator to make incorrect translation, as well as coercion of said persons to evade giving evidence, which is combined with blackmail, threatening with murder, causation of damage to health, destruction of property of those persons or of their relatives, -

shall be punished by a fine in an amount from two hundred up to five hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from two to five months, or by detention under arrest for a period from three to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to three years.

3. An act stipulated by the second part of this Article which is committed with violence not dangerous for life or health of said persons, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period up to five years.

4. Acts stipulated by the first or second part of this Article, which are committed by an organised group or with violence which is dangerous for life or health of said persons, and equally associated with accusation of committing a corruption crime, grave or especially grave crime, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from two to eight years.

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