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.
Article 421 Accepting bribes
1. An official person, foreign official person or foreign public official, who requests or receives, directly or indirectly, any undue gift or advantage, for himself, herself or for another person, or who accepts an offer or promise of such gift or advantage, so that the official person, foreign public official, or foreign public person acts or refrains from acting in accordance with his or her official duties, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment of one (1) to eight (8) years.
2. An official person, foreign official person or foreign public official who requests or receives, directly or indirectly, any undue gift or advantage, for himself or herself or for another person, or accepts an offer or promise of such gift or advantage, so that the official person, foreign official person or foreign public official acts or refrains from acting, in violation of his or her official duties, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment of three (3) to twelve (12) years.
3. When the offense under paragraph 1. of this Article results in a material benefit exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) EUR, the perpetrator shall be punished by fine and imprisonment of five (5) to fifteen (15) years.
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties.