Chapter 15 (563/1998)
Offences against the administration of justice
Section 5 (563/1998)
Attempted incitement to a false statement
A person who attempts to incite another person to commit an offence referred to in sections 1–3 shall be sentenced for attempted incitement to a false statement to a fine or to imprisonment for at most one year.
Chapter 15 (563/1998)
Offences against the administration of justice
Section 9 (563/1998)
Threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice
A person who unlawfully
1) by using violence or making a threat, prevents or attempts to prevent another person from making a statement as a witness, an expert witness, another person to be heard, or a party in a trial, a criminal investigation, a police investigation or other comparable official proceedings, or influences or attempts to influence the contents of the statement, or
2) because of a statement made by another person in a hearing referred to above, uses or threatens to use violence against this person or a person whose relationship to this person is one referred to in section 10, subsection 2
shall, unless a more severe punishment for the act is provided elsewhere by law, be sentenced for threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice to a fine or to imprisonment for at most three years.
Chapter 16 (563/1998)
Offences against public authorities
Section 12 (563/1998)
Destroying evidence in the possession of the authorities
A person who unlawfully destroys, takes possession of, damages or otherwise renders useless a document or another piece of evidence in a public archive or in the possession of a public authority, or a public register maintained by an authority or a part of such a register, shall be sentenced for destroying evidence in the possession of the authorities to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years.
A new section 12 a shall be added to Chapter 15 of the Penal Code (39/1889) enacted on 19 December 1889, as follows:
Chapter 15 – Offences against the administration of justice (563/1998)
Section 12 a – Offences against the administration of justice by the International Criminal Court
For the purposes of application of the provisions on false statement, false denunciation, falsification of evidence, and threatening a person to be heard in the administration of justice, “a court of law” shall also mean the International Criminal Court and “criminal investigations” shall also mean an investigation referred to in the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence;