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CHAPTER EIGHT
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Title Three
Corruption

Active Bribery
Section 332

(1) Any person who, either directly or through an intermediary, promises, offers or gives a bribe to another person to make that person act or refrain from acting, and thus breaches his duties resulting from his employment, profession, position or function, promises, offers or gives a bribe for the same reason to a third party, either directly or through an intermediary, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of up to three years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to five years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 acting in a more serious manner.

(3) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of four to ten years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 on an extensive scale.

Section 333

(1) Any person who, in connection with the procurement of a thing of general interest, gives, offers or promises a bribe to another person, either directly or through an intermediary, or gives, offers or promises a bribe for the same reason to a third party, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of between six months to three years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to five years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1,

a) acting in a more serious manner, or
b) against a public official.

(3) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of five to twelve years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 on an extensive scale.

Section 334

(1) Any person who, either directly or through an intermediary, gives, offers or promises a bribe to a foreign public official or to another person, in connection with the official duties of the foreign public official, with the intention of obtaining or maintaining an undue advantage in an international business transaction, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to five years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of five to twelve years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 on an extensive scale.

Section 335

(1) Any person who, either directly or through an intermediary, gives, offers or promises a bribe to a member of a foreign parliamentary assembly, judge or official of an international judicial institution recognised by the Slovak Republic, or a representative or employee of an international, supranational, intergovernmental organisation or institution with which the Slovak Republic has a contractual relationship, or to a person in a similar position in connection with the performance of his function, or gives, offers or promises a bribe for the same reason to a third party, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to five years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of five to twelve years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 on an extensive scale.

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CHAPTER EIGHT
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Title Five
Other Forms of Interfering with the Activities by Public Authorities

Section 342
Interfering with Judicial Independence

(1) Any person who exerts an influence on a judge with the aim of making him breach his duty in judicial proceedings, or who performs an action with the intention of obstructing the rights of the parties to the proceedings or of the accused to have a lawful judge, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to six years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to eight years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1

a) by reason of specific motivation,
b) with the intention of preventing or obstructing the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms by another, or
c) by publicly slandering a judge for his decision in a particular case.

(3) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of three to ten years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1 with the intention of obtaining substantial benefit for himself or another, or causes substantial damage or other particularly serious consequence.

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Title Five
Other Forms of Interfering with the Activities by Public Authorities

Section 344
Obstruction of Justice

(1) Any person who, in proceedings before the court or in criminal proceedings,

a) presents as genuine the evidence of which he knows that it is false or altered,
b) falsifies, alters or obstructs the evidence or prevents the taking of evidence,
c) obstructs or prevents the presence or the testimony of a party to the criminal proceedings, party to the proceedings before the court, witness, expert, interpreter or translator, or
d) uses violence, threat of violence or threat of other grievous harm, or who promises, offers or provides undue advantage with the aim of exerting influence on a party to the criminal proceedings, party to the proceedings before the court, witness, expert, interpreter, translator, or a body involved in criminal proceedings, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to six years.

(2) The offender shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of three to eight years if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1

a) with the intention of obtaining substantial benefit for himself or another, or causing substantial damage or other particularly serious consequence,
b) with the intention to prevent or obstruct the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms by another, or
c) by reason of specific motivation.

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Title Five
Other Forms of Interfering with the Activities by Public Authorities

Obstructing the Execution of an Official Decision
Section 348

(1) Any person who obstructs or substantially impedes the execution of a decision taken by a court or other public authority, by

a) failing to commence serving a sentence of imprisonment on the date specified by the court without a serious reason,
b) residing, without permission and without a serious reason, in a locality or district from which he has been banned under a prohibition of residence sentence, or by failing to comply with restrictions and obligations imposed on him by the court in connection with the execution of such sentence,
c) residing, without permission and without a serious reason, on the territory of the Slovak Republic despite having been imposed the sentence of expulsion from, or sentence of prohibition of residence on, the territory of the Slovak Republic,
d) carrying out the activities prohibited under the prohibition to undertake certain activities decision issued by a court or other State authority,
e) committing serious misconduct with the aim to frustrate the purpose of protective medical treatment or protective re-education imposed on him by a court or otherwise, in particular by escaping from an institution, or by substantially impeding the execution of such decisions, or
f) committing serious misconduct with the aim to prevent the purpose of remand in custody or sentence, or
g) committing serious or repeated misconduct with the aim to breach an order restraining him from entering shared household issued under separate regulation or on the basis of a preliminary measure taken by a court, or
h) committing serious misconduct whereby he frustrates an execution of imposed protective supervision,
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of up to two years.

(2) Any person who, in the course of criminal proceedings, frustrates or substantially impedes the execution of a decision made by a court or other public authority by

a) destroying, damaging, rendering unusable, concealing, stealing or removing a thing affected by such decision, or
b) escaping the guards, escaping from the execution of custody or of an imprisonment sentence, or by helping in the escape of another,
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to five 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:
(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