conditions or removing obstacles to the commission of crime as well as promising one
prior to the commission to conceal the crime, a perpetrator, the means by which the
crime was committed, any traces of the crime, or the proceeds of crime.
Limits of Liability and Punishment of Accomplices
Article 26
(1) Co-principal liability is defined by his wrongful intent or negligence, and
instigator and aider liability by their wrongful intent.
(2) Where a co-principal, instigator or an aider voluntarily prevented the
commission of a criminal offence, punishment may be remitted.
(3) Personal relations, capacity and circumstances for which the law excludes
culpability or allows for the remission of punishment and which serve as ground to
qualify an offence as serious or minor, or have an impact on the punishment imposed,
may apply only to the principal, co-principal, instigator or aider with whom such
relations, capacity and circumstances exist.
Punishment of Instigator and Aider for
Attempt and for Minor Criminal Offence
Article 27
(1) Where the commission remains incomplete, the instigator and aider shall
receive a punishment for an attempt.
(2) Where the principal commits a minor criminal offence than the one that
instigation or aiding refers to and which would have been contained in it, the instigator
and aider shall receive punishment for the criminal offence committed.
(3) The provision of para. 2 hereof shall not apply if the instigator would receive a
more severe punishment under Art.24, para. 2, hereof.
Special Provisions on Liability for Criminal Offences
Committed through Media
Liability of Editor-in-chief
Article 28
(1) Liability for criminal offences committed through media shall be borne by the
editor-in-chief or a person replacing him at the time of publication of the information
provided that:
1)
until the end of the main hearing before a first instance court the
author remains unknown,