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Head for crime shall be a person who directed preparation and commission of the crime.
Instigator shall be a person who tempted somebody to commission of a crime.
Helpmate shall be a person who assisted commission of a crime with advices, directions, providing
with tools or removing obstacles, as well as who promised in advance to conceal a criminal or
objects obtained illegally or promised to purchase or distribute them.
Article 29. Forms of Complicity
Forms of complicity shall be, as follows: simple complicity, compound complicity, an organized
group, and a criminal community.
Simple complicity shall be participation of two or three persons in commission of a crime without a
previous concert.
Compound complicity shall be participation of two or three persons in commission of a crime by
previous concert.
Organized crime group shall be a previous association of at least two people into a group for a joint
criminal activity.
Criminal community shall be a previous association of at least two groups for criminal activity.
Article 30. Limits of Liability for Complicity
Heads for crime, instigators and helpmates shall be subject to liability under the same Article of the
Special Part of this Code, as committers.
Heads for crime, as well as members of a criminal group organized by previous concert, organized
criminal group, or criminal community, shall be subject to liability for all crimes, of which
preparation or commission they participated.
Persons who established an organized group or criminal community, or directed thereof, shall be
subject to liability for all crimes, in preparation or commission of which they participated.
For commission of an act, which is out of intent of other accomplices, criminal liability shall be
incurred only by a person committed thereof.
Voluntary renunciation of a head for crime, instigator, or helpmate shall discharge from liability for
complicity, if he took all timely measures, which he was in position to take, for prevention of the
commission of the crime.
Article 31. Criminal Affiliation
Misprision to authorities of preparation, commission, or completion of a crime, not promised in
advance, shall be subject to liability only in the instances envisaged by Article 241 of this Code.
Concealment of a criminal, tools and instruments, or traces of crime, as well as illegally obtained
objects shall be subject to liability only in the instances envisaged by Article 241 of this Code.