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Article 197-4Influence Peddling

第百九十七条の四(あっせん収賄)

A public employee who accepts, solicits or promises to accept a bribe as consideration for the influence which the employee exerted or is to exert, in response to a request, upon another public employee so as to cause the other to act illegally or refrain from acting in the exercise of official duty is punished by imprisonment for 5 years or less.

公務員が請託を受け、他の公務員に職務上不正な行為をさせるように、又は相当の行為をさせないようにあっせんをすること又はしたことの報酬として、賄賂を収受し、又はその要求若しくは約束をしたときは、五年以下の拘禁刑に処する。

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