Database of Legislation

Obstruction of Justice
  • Sectors

    • • Public officials
  • Offending Involves

    • • promising/ offering/ giving undue advantage
  • In Order To

    • • Interfere with the exercise of official duties by a justice or law enforcement official
 Chapter X
 Article 91

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Article 11: Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions
  • Article 23: Criminalization of obstruction of justice
  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Original Text

    91. Any person who -
    (a) being employed in the public service, and being charged with the performance of any duty by virtue of such employment, corruptly solicits, receives, or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person on account of anything already done or omitted to be done, or to be afterwards done or omitted to be done, by him in the discharge of the duties of his office; or
    (b) corruptly gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or confer, or to procure or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for any person employed in the public service, or to, upon, or for any other person, any property or benefit of any kind on account of any such act or omission on the part of the person so employed,
    is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

     
     
     

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