Article 386
Obstruction of evidence or official proceedings
1. Whoever by any means of compulsion or bribe with the intent to:
1.1. causes any person to make a false statement, provide a false document or conceal a material fact, in an official proceeding;
1.2. prevents or delays the attendance or testimony of any person in any official proceeding;
1.3. prevents or delays the communication by any person of information relating to the commission of a criminal offense to any police officer or other authorized investigator, prosecutor or judge;
1.4. prevents or delays a person from producing any document or record, in any official proceeding;
1.5.causes any person to alter, remove, conceal, destroy, damage, or render unserviceable, in whole or in part, any record, property, object or documents with the intent to impair the object’s availability for use in an official proceeding; or
1.6. causes a person to evade a legal summons to give testimony or produce evidence in an official proceeding;
1.7. induces a witness or an expert to decline to give or to give a false statement in court proceedings, minor offence proceedings, administrative proceedings or in proceedings before a notary public or disciplinary proceedings shall be punished by imprisonment of six (6) months to five (5) years.
2. Whoever, with the intent to prevent or hamper the collection of evidence in court proceedings, minor offences proceedings, administrative proceedings, proceedings before a notary public or disciplinary proceedings, conceals, destroys, damages or renders unserviceable, in whole or in part, the property of another person or a document that may be used as evidence, shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment of up to three (3) years.
3. Whoever, with the intent to prevent or hamper the collection of evidence in court proceedings or administrative proceedings, removes, shifts or changes the place of any boundary marker, land marker or any other mark designed to mark ownership or real estate or right to use water, or, with the same intent, places such markers in a misleading manner shall be punished as provided for in paragraph 1. of this Article.
4. Whoever in the commission of the offenses provided for in paragraphs 1. to 3. of this Article threatens to use violence or uses violence, shall be punished by imprisonment of at least two (2) years.
5. If the offense provided for in paragraph 1. of this Article is committed against any witness the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment of at least three (3) years, and if such offense results in bodily injury, at least five (5) years.