PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER TWO
TASKS AND PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDING

Article 15. Independence of Judges and Their Subordination Only to Law

15.2. It shall be prohibited to any official, citizen or any body to interfere and influence in execution
by judges their duty to administer justice.

PART VIII
COURT ACTIVITIES

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION

Article 266. Hearing testimony of a witness

266.2. Before hearing testimony of the victim, the chair of judicial session shall ascertain the identity of the witness and his/her relationship with the defendant and the victim and shall explain his/her duties to give true and correct account of all known to him/her circumstances of the case and warn of responsibility for refusing or evading to give testimony or for giving deliberately false testimony, and a note to such effect shall be made in the record, which shall be certified by the signature of the witness.

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;
(b) Presenting evidence that the party knows is false or forged;
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence;
(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;
(e) Retaliating against an official of the Court on account of duties performed by that or another official;
(f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties.