Do not confuse contradiction with intentional wrongdoing
Providing records or asking neutral questions is not the same as inducing an expert or interpreter to distort an official function.
The proposition that needs proof
What instruction, benefit, threat or undisclosed contact is alleged, and did it concern the substance of the expert or interpreted result?
Every version should be examined with the warning, translation, interview conditions and information available at that time.
Create a version-and-contact matrix
Engagement terms, questions, drafts, communications, payments, source materials, interpretation audio and final opinion.
- PreserveSecure every original recording, text and version.
- CompareMark exact additions, omissions and contradictions without paraphrase.
- ExplainTest memory, translation, disclosure, pressure and objective corroboration.
Articles that may enter the qualification
Influencing a witness or other participant
Communications, threats, benefits and purpose must be distinguished from legitimate contact or representation through counsel.
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Article 372Exertion of influence on an interviewee, a witness, victim, expert or interpreter+
1. Asking or persuading an interviewee, witness, victim, expert or interpreter to provide, respectively, false information or false testimony, or a false conclusion, or to refuse to provide information or a testimony, and/or to provide incorrect translation, or to change the information or testimony or conclusion he/she has provided, –
shall be punished by a fine or community service for one hundred and eighty to two hundred and forty hours, or by corrective labour for up to two years or imprisonment for a term of one to three years.
2. Subornation or coercion of an interviewee, witness, victim, expert or interpreter to provide, respectively, false information or a false testimony, or a false conclusion, or to intentionally interpret incorrectly, and/or to refuse to provide information or a testimony, or to change the testimony, if it is accompanied by an offer of any kind of material benefit to this person or his/her close relative, or by a threat to kill, exert violence, or to damage, destroy property of this person or his/her close relative and/or by other threats, –
shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for a term of three to six years.
3. The act provided for by paragraph 2 of this article that has been committed using violence, –
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to eight years.
4. The same act that is dangerous for life or health, –
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of six to nine years.
Note: For the act provided for by this article a legal person shall be punished by a fine or by deprivation of the right to carry out activities and a fine.
The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.
Preserve every draft and channel substantive questions transparently through the procedural record.
Primary sources for this guide
Before acting, compare this guide with the current Georgian text and the exact document served in the case. The official English translation may not include the latest amendment.
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