'Conspiracy' in document 'Zimbabwe - Criminal Law'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER XI
CRIMES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

188 Conspiracy

(1) Any person who enters into an agreement with one or more other persons for the commission of a crime, whether in terms of this Code or any other enactment—
(a) intending by the agreement to bring about the commission of the crime; or
(b) realising that there is a real risk or possibility that the agreement may bring about the commission of the crime;
shall be guilty of conspiracy to commit the crime concerned.

(2) For an agreement to constitute a conspiracy—
(a) it shall not be necessary for the parties—
(i) to agree upon the time, manner and circumstances in which the crime which is the subject of the conspiracy is to be committed; or
(ii) to know the identity of every other party to the conspiracy;
(b) it shall be immaterial that—
(i) the crime which is the subject of the conspiracy is to be committed by one, both or all of the parties to the agreement; or
(ii) one or more of the parties to the conspiracy, other than the accused, did not know that the subject-matter of the agreement was the commission of a crime.

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:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime