Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Corruption
A section of the subsidiary questionnaire asked for other valuable information
about the offence of corruption:
S.4 Corruption
The offence of corruption implies offering or accepting financial or any other advantages in exchange
of favorable treatment by public officials or civil servants.
A standard definition of corruption can be drawn looking at the existing EU definition of corruption,
which is made up of four different criminal conducts. Please indicate for each element whether it
is punishable in your country.
Does the concept of corruption in your country include the following elements?
Indicate whether punishable in
your country (Y/N)
Passive corruption in the public sector: “the deliberate
action of an official, who, directly or through an intermediary,
requests or receives advantages of any kind whatsoever,
for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise
of such an advantage, to act or refrain from acting in
accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his functions
in breach of his official duties
Active corruption in the public sector: “the deliberate
action of whosoever promises or gives, directly or through
an intermediary, an advantage of any kind whatsoever to
an official for himself or for a third party for him to act or
refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the
exercise of his functions in breach of his official duties
Active corruption in the private sector: “promising,
offering or giving, directly or through an intermediary, to a
person who in any capacity directs or works for a privatesector
entity an undue advantage of any kind, for that
person or for a third party, in order that that person should
perform or refrain from performing any act, in breach of
that person's duties
passive corruption in the private sector: “directly or
through an intermediary, requesting or receiving an undue
advantage of any kind, or accepting the promise of such
an advantage, for oneself or for a third party, while in any
capacity directing or working for a private-sector entity, in
order to perform or refrain from performing any act, in
breach of one's duties
Active corruption of foreign public officials
Intermediation in corruption
Extortion by public officers
Public officers receiving property to show favor/indirect
bribery in public sector/trading in influence
in public sector
Bribery of electorate
Instigation to corruption