| Abstract [eng] |
Bribery is one of the corruptive criminal acts. Criminal liability for this criminal offence is established in article 225 of Criminal Code of Lithuania. In this master‘s work approach of bribery offence in Criminal Code is revealed by analyzing the configuration of bribery: the subject - matter, the objective part, the subject and the subjective part. Moreover, there is examined history of treatment of bribery offence in Lithuania since 1918 when Lithuania proclaimed its independence. Also this criminal offence is distinguished from other offences against public authority (such as backhander, misuse and bribery of agent) accenting main differences among those criminal offences which all together defines corruption. Furthermore, in this work there is analyzed treatment of bribery in main European Union, Council of Europe and United Nations Organization international documents in which this offence is called passive corruption or passive bribery and which are compulsory for the Republic of Lithuania. In the end, there is reviewed regulation of bribery criminal offence in main criminal laws of foreign countries – Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America and Canada. |
