Bosnia and Herzegovina

Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina

SPECIAL PART

XIX C H A P T E R N I N E T E E N
CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST OFFICIAL DUTY OR
OTHER RESPONSIBLE DUTY

Giving Gifts and Other Forms of Benefits
Article 218

(1) Whoever gives or promises a gift or any other benefit to an official or responsible person in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina including also a foreign official person or an international official, in order that he performs within the scope of his official powers of an act, which ought not to be performed by him, or abstains from performing of an act which ought to be performed by him, or whoever mediates in such bribing of the official or responsible person,
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term between six months and five years.

(2) Whoever gives or promises a gift or any other benefit to an official or responsible person in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina including also a foreign official person or an international official, in order that he performs within the scope of his official powers an act, which ought to be performed by him, or abstains from performing of an act, which ought not be performed by him,
shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.
(3) The perpetrator of the criminal offence referred to in paragraph 1 and 2 of this Article who had given a bribe on request of the official or responsible person in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina including also a foreign official person or an international official, but reported the deed before it being discovered or before knowing that the deed has been discovered,
may be released from punishment.
(4) The gifts or any other benefits shall be forfeited, while in case referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article, they can be returned to the giver.

Keywords

Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court



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