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

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands - Criminal Code 2011 EN

PART II. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
ARTICLE 241. PERJURY AND OTHER FALSIFICATION IN OFFICIAL MATTERS

§241.6. Tampering with Witnesses and Informants.
(1) Tampering. A person commits a felony of the second degree if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, the person attempts to promise, offer or give an undue benefit, induce, threaten, intimidate, use physical force, or otherwise act or refrain to act so as to cause a witness or informant to:
(a) testify or inform falsely; or
(b) withhold any testimony, information, document or thing; or
(c) elude legal process summoning the witness or informant to testify or supply evidence; or
(d) absent himself or herself from any official proceeding or investigation to which the person has been summoned.
(2) It is no defense that the witness or informant has not been subpoenaed or does not intend to testify.
(3) Witness or Informant Taking Bribe. A person commits a felony of the second degree if the person solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit or thing of value in consideration of the person's doing any of the things specified in clauses (a) to (d) of Subsection (1).

§241.7. Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence.
A person is guilty of a felony of the second degree if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, the person:
(1) alters, destroys, conceals or removes any record, document or thing with intent to impair its verity or availability in such proceeding or investigation; or
(2) makes, presents or uses any record, document or thing knowing it to be false and with intent to mislead a public servant who is or may be engaged in such proceeding or investigation.

Rome Statute

Article 70 Offences against the administration of justice

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;