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ARTICLE-12: Private sector     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (f) The intentional destruction of bookkeeping documents earlier than foreseen by the law. ...


ARTICLE-15: Bribery of national public officials     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally: ...


ARTICLE-16: Bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally, the promise, offering or giving to a foreign public official or an official of a public international organization, directly or indirectly, of an undue advantage, for the official himself or herself or another person or entity, in order that the official act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her official duties, in order to obtain or retain business or other undue advantage in relation to the conduct of international business. ...
... 2. Each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally, the solicitation or acceptance by a foreign public official or an official of a public international organization, directly or indirectly, of an undue advantage, for the official himself or herself or another person or entity, in order that the official act or refrain from acting in the exercise of his or her official duties. ...


ARTICLE-17: Embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion of property by a public official     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally, the embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion by a public official for his or her benefit or for the benefit of another person or entity, of any property, public or private funds or securities or any other thing of value entrusted to the public official by virtue of his or her position. ...


ARTICLE-18: Trading in influence     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally: ...


ARTICLE-19: Abuse of functions     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally, the abuse of functions or position, that is, the performance of or failure to perform an act, in violation of laws, by a public official in the discharge of his or her functions, for the purpose of obtaining an undue advantage for himself or herself or for another person or entity. ...


ARTICLE-20: Illicit enrichment     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Subject to its constitution and the fundamental principles of its legal system, each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally, illicit enrichment, that is, a significant increase in the assets of a public official that he or she cannot reasonably explain in relation to his or her lawful income. ...


ARTICLE-21: Bribery in the private sector     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally in the course of economic, financial or commercial activities: ...


ARTICLE-22: Embezzlement of property in the private sector     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally in the course of economic, financial or commercial activities, embezzlement by a person who directs or works, in any capacity, in a private sector entity of any property, private funds or securities or any other thing of value entrusted to him or her by virtue of his or her position. ...


ARTICLE-23: Laundering of proceeds of crime     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Each State Party shall adopt, in accordance with fundamental principles of its domestic law, such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally: ...


ARTICLE-24: Concealment     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Without prejudice to the provisions of article 23 of this Convention, each State Party shall consider adopting such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally after the commission of any of the offences established in accordance with this Convention without having participated in such offences, the concealment or continued retention of property when the person involved knows that such property is the result of any of the offences established in accordance with this Convention. ...


ARTICLE-25: Obstruction of justice     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally: ...