66 CAP. 9.] CRIMINAL CODE (i) where the person involved is any person mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (d) or (e) the provisions of articles 115, 116, 117 and 120 shall apply; and (ii) where the person involved is any person mentioned in paragraph (c) the provisions of articles 118 and 120 shall apply. Trading in influence. Added by: III. 2002.29. Amended by: VI. 2007.2; XXXI. 2007.8; IV. 2013.6. 121A. (1) Any person who promises, gives or offers, directly or indirectly, any undue advantage to any other person who asserts or confirms that he or she is able to exert an improper influence over the decision-making of any person referred to in the preceding articles of this sub-title and of any other person, in order to induce such other person to exercise such influence, whether such undue advantage is for such other person or anyone else, shall on conviction be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for a term from three years to six years. (2) Any person who requests, receives or accepts any offer or promise of any undue advantage for himself or for anyone else with the object of exercising any improper influence as is referred to in subarticle (1) shall on conviction be liable to the punishment laid down in that subarticle. (3) The offences referred to in subarticles (1) and (2) shall be complete whether or not the alleged ability to exert an improper influence existed, whether or not the influence is exerted and whether or not the supposed influence leads to the intended result. Accounting offences. Added by: III. 2002.29. Amended by: VI. 2007.3; IV. 2013.7. 121B. Whosoever, with intent to commit, conceal or disguise any offence, creates or uses an invoice or any other accounting document or record containing false or incomplete information or unlawfully omits to make a record of payment, shall on conviction be liable to the punishment of imprisonment from three months to eighteen months without prejudice to any other punishment to which he may be liable under any other provision of this Code or of any other law. Jurisdiction. Added by: III. 2002.29. Amended by: XIII. 2002.10; VIII. 2015.7. 121C. Without prejudice to the provisions of article 5, the Maltese courts shall also have jurisdiction over the offences laid down in this sub-title where: (a) only part of the action giving execution to the offence took place in Malta; or (b) the offender is a Maltese national or permanent resident in Malta within the meaning of article 5(1)(d), a public officer or servant of Malta or a member of the House of Representatives or of a Local Council; or (c) the offence involves a public officer or servant of Malta or is a member of the House of Representatives or of a Local Council; or (d) the offence involves any of those persons to whom reference is made in article 121(4)(b), (c) or (d) and that person is at the same time a citizen or permanent resident in Malta within the meaning of article 5(1)(d).