The Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)('the Act') is a piece
of legislation that applies across Australia and contains offences
relating to a wide range of criminal conduct.
Many of those offences relate to offences committed overseas, as
well as cross-national conduct; in other words, that which occurs
between parties both within and outside the nation.
The Offence of Bribing a Foreign Public Official
One of those offences is
bribing a foreign public official, which is contained in
section 70.2 of the Act and makes such conduct an offence
punishable by a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or 10,000
penalty units for an individual, or the greatest of 100,000 penalty
units, 3 times any benefit derived from the conduct or 10% of
annual turnover for a company.
