UN Convention Against Corruption
This commitment requires Sri Lanka to ensure compliance with UNCAC. Compliance status of the mandatory provisions are as follows:
Article 25 - Obstruction of justice
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Article 25 – Adopt legislative and other measures to establish as criminal offences, when committed intentionally:
(a) The use of physical force, threats or intimidation or the promise, offering or giving of an undue advantage to induce false testimony or to interfere in the giving of testimony or the production of evidence in a proceeding in relation to the commission of offences under UNCAC
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Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC)
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• As per section 73 of the Bribery Act No. 11 of 1954 interfering with any witness or impeding a witness from giving evidence in a court or commission is an offence. This is limited to bribery cases.
• Section 8 of the Assistance and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act No. 4 of 2015, covers the situations under the article.
Link to Bribery Act https://www.ciaboc.gov.lk/images/Publications/Bribery_Act_english.pdf
Link to Assistance and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act http://srilankalaw.lk/YearWisePdf/2015/ASSISTANCE_TO_AND_PROTECTION_OF_VICTIMS_OF_CRIME_AND_WITNESSES_ACT,_No._4_OF_2015.pdf
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(b) The use of physical force, threats or intimidation to interfere with the exercise of official duties by a justice or law enforcement official in relation to the commission of offences under UNCAC.
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Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC)
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• Sections 74 (Influencing, threatening or injuring member of commission of inquiry or officer) and 75 (Disobeying commission of inquiry) of the Bribery Act No. 11 of 1954 criminalize the above.
• Sections 183 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions), 184 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions),185 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions),186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions) and 187 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions) of the Penal Code cover all offences under the article.
Link to Bribery Act https://www.ciaboc.gov.lk/images/Publications/Bribery_Act_english.pdf
Link to Penal Code http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/srilanka/statutes/Penal_Code.pdf
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