Under the “Prevention of Corruption Act 2002”,
there is no specific definition of “bribe”. The
Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines “bribe”as “an
inducement offered in an attempt to dishonestly persuade someone to act
in one’s favour by a payment or otherwise”. However,
the definition of ‘act of corruption’in
section 2 of the Act sheds some light on this definition as follows:-
“act of corruption
(a) means an act which constitutes a corruption offence; and
(b) includes-
(i) any conduct whereby in return for a gratification, a person does
or neglects from doing an act in contravention of his public duties;
(ii) the offer, promise, soliciting or receipt of a gratification as
an inducement or reward to do or not to do any act, with a corrupt intention;
(iii) the abuse of a public or private office for private gain;
(iv) an agreement between 2 or more persons to act or refrain from acting
in violation of a person's duties in the private or public sector for
profit or gain;
(v) any conduct whereby a person accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept
or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other
person, any gratification of inducing a public official, by corrupt or
illegal means, or by the exercise of personal influence, to do or abstain
from doing an act in the exercise of his duties to show favour or disfavour
to any person".
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