'Joint commission' in document 'Kyrgyzstan - Criminal Code (ENG)'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION II. CRIME

CHAPTER 7. CRIMINAL COMPLICITY

Article 30. Criminal Complicity

(1) Criminal complicity is an intended joint involvement of two or more persons in commitment of an intended crime.

(2) Criminal participants, along with principal offenders, are crime organizers, instigators and accomplices.

(3) Principal offender is a person directly committing the crime or directly participating in its completion jointly with other persons as well as those committing crime through engagement of other persons not criminally liable by act of law.

(4) Organizer is a person that organized the crime or managing its execution, as well as person that formed or managed an organized group or criminal association.

(5) Instigator is a person that induced the crime.

(6) Accomplice is a person that assisted the crime through counseling, instructing, providing means or eliminating obstacles, or other person that in advance promised to conceal offender's traces, instruments or means of crime, crime traces or objects obtained illegally, and a person that in advance promised to obtain or dispose of such objects.

(7) Liability imposed on organizer, instigator and accomplice shall take its effect under the same article of the Special Part of the Criminal Code as applied to the principal offender, with reference to this article.

GENERAL PART

SECTION II. CRIME

CHAPTER 7. CRIMINAL COMPLICITY

Article 31. Forms of Complicity

(1) Forms of criminal complicity include simple complicity, compound complicity, organized group, and criminal association.

(2) Simple complicity is commitment of a crime by two or more persons each executing actions provided in corpus delicti (joint participation). There may be two types of simple complicity :

1) crime committed by a group of persons with no previous concert ;
2) crime committed by a group of persons under previous concert ;

(3) Compound complicity is commitment of a crime by two or more persons with role allocation (organizer, instigator, principal offender and accomplice).

(4) An organized criminal group is a steady group of two or more persons previously organized to commit crimes.

(5) A criminal association is a steady, solid association of two or more persons or groups previously organized to systematically commit severe and particularly severe crimes.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible.