SPECIAL PART

SECTION X. CRIMES AGAINST STATE POWER

CHAPTER 31. CRIMES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Article 330. Knowingly False Testimony, Expert or Specialist Opinion, or Mistranslation

(1) Knowingly false testimony of a witness, a victim or an expert's opinion or evidence or specialist's evidence, and also knowing mistranslation in court, or in a preliminary investigation,

Shall be punishable by 80 to 160 hours of public work or a fine in the amount of 200 to 1,000 estimated rates or up to two years of correctional work or up to three years of imprisonment.

(2) The same acts, joined with the accusation of a person of the commission of a grave or especially grave crime,

Shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of 500 to 5,000 estimated rates or up to three years of correctional work or up to five years of restricted liberty or up to five years of imprisonment.

Note. A witness, victim, expert, specialist, or interpreter shall be relieved from criminal liability if prior to passing a sentence by a court or a court’s decision they on their own free will have stated that their testimony or opinion was false, or that interpretation was knowingly given wrongly in the course of an inquest, preliminary investigation, or court hearing.

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:
(a) Giving false testimony when under an obligation pursuant to article 69, paragraph 1, to tell the truth