Abetting

Armenia

Armenia - Criminal Code (EN) 2003 (2013)

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 37. The notion of complicity.

Willful joint participation of two or more persons in a willful crime is considered complicity.

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 38. Types of accomplices.

1. The organizer, the abettor and the helper are considered the accomplices to the perpetrator.

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 7.

Complicity.

Article 38. Types of accomplices.

4. The abettor is the person who abetted another person to the committal of crime through persuasion, financial incentive, threat or other means.

Armenia - Criminal Procedure Code 1998 (2021) (EN)

Article 46. Types of Accomplices

1. The performer, the inciter, the organizer and the abettor shall be deemed to be accomplices.

Article 46. Types of Accomplices

7. The abettor is also the person who has:

1) abetted someone else to abetment;
2) initially agreed to participate in the crime as a joint perpetrator, however while committing the criminal offence by another joint perpetrator has not participated directly in the commission if criminal offence and by his presence has strengthened the determination of the performer to commit criminal offence;
3) abetted the crime through such a person who, according to law, is not subject to criminal liability or has acted negligently; or
4) at instigation of a special subject has committed the objective side of the special subject crime, to which he/she is not considered to be a subject, or together with the special subject participated in the commission of the objective side of the special subject crime, if the conditions specified in Parts 4, 5 and 6 of Article 48 of this Code, according to which the person is not considered as a abetter of a crime with special subject, were absent.

Rome Statute

Article 25 Individual criminal responsibility

3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:

(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission;