'Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court' in document 'Macedonia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SPECIAL PART

31. CRIMES AGAINST THE JUDICIARY

Coercion against a judiciary employee

Article 375

(1) A person who by force or by serious threat, coerces a judge, a jury-judge, a public prosecutor, a public legal officer, or their deputy, to do, not to do, or to endure something, shall be punished with a fine, or with imprisonment of up to three years.

(2) If during performing of the crime, the persons from paragraph 1, or persons close to them, suffered physical injury, the perpetrator shall be sentenced with imprisonment of one to ten years.

(3) The attempt of the crimes stipulated in the paragraph 1, 2 and 3 is punishable.

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:
(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties