(1) In order to prevent reveal of any truth or to take advantage of any unfairness during a case being held (…)52, any person who unlawfully attempts to influence a person charged with a judicial duty, expert witness or witness to cause these persons to render a decision or conduct an action or make a statement in favour of or against one or more of the parties in a trial, (…) defendants, intervening parties or victims shall be sentenced to a penalty of imprisonment for a term of two to four years. (Additional sentence: 2/7/2012 – By Article 69 of the Law no. 6545) If the attempt does not go beyond an attempt to engender favouritism the penalty of imprisonment to be imposed shall be for a term of six months to two years.

(2) Where the act constituting an offence defined in paragraph one constitutes any other offence, then the sentence to be imposed shall be increased by one half according to the provisions relating to conceptual aggregation.