LAW OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

of March 6, 2003 No. 51

About fight against corruption

Accepted by General Court of Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on January 30, 2003

This Law is the main regulatory legal act directed to identification, the prevention and suppression of corruption offenses, involvement of perpetrators to responsibility and also determines legal and organizational basis of fight against corruption offenses.

Article 1. Concept of corruption

Corruption (corruption offense) represents mercenary act of the officials who are carrying out certain functional obligations in public sector which leads to violation of the functional obligations assigned to them according to the status of the government employee, and other relations aims at receipt of illegal benefits for itself and others and creates threat to interests of society and state.

It includes:

- bribery, theft, plunder, negligence and assignment of the state-owned and private property by officials;

- abuse of official position for receipt of any illegal benefits (privileges, benefits) for and others as a result of inofficial use of the official status.

Article 2. Main objectives of this Law

The main objectives of this Law are:

- prevention of corruption offense, and also its identification and suppression;

- ensuring protection of the rights, freedoms of citizens and interests of society;

- recovery violated the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and legal entities, liquidation of other effects caused by corruption;

- safety of the state and effective functioning of public authorities;

- strengthening of the authority of public service, forming at citizens of respect for public service and the government employee;

- ensuring inevitability of responsibility for making of corruption offenses;

- creation of the conditions providing integrity of persons performing the state functions.

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