. (2) Also a person who acts as an intermediary for another in order to evade a prohibition to pursue a business shall be sentenced for a breach of a prohibition to pursue a business. Section 12 - Destroying evidence in the possession of the authorities (563/1998) A person who unlawfully destroys, appropriates, damages or otherwise renders useless a document or other evidence in a public archive or in the possession of a public authority, or a public register maintained by an authority or a part of such a register, shall be sentenced for destroying evidence in the possession of the authorities to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years. Section 13 – Giving of bribes (604/2002) (1) A person who promises, offers or gives to a public official in exchange for his or her actions in service a gift or other benefit intended for him or her or for another, that influences or is intended to influence or is conducive to influencing the actions in service of the public official, shall be sentenced for the giving of bribes to a fine or to imprisonment for at most two years. (2) Also a person who, in exchange for the actions in service of a public official, promises, offers or gives the gift or benefit referred to in subsection 1 shall be sentenced for bribery. Section 14 - Aggravated giving of bribes (563/1998) If in the giving of bribes (1) the gift or benefit is intended to make the person act in service contrary to his or her duties with the result of considerable benefit to the briber or to another person or of considerable loss or detriment to another person, or (2) the value of the gift or benefit is considerable and the bribery is aggravated also when assessed as whole, the offender shall be sentenced for aggravated giving of bribes to imprisonment for at least four months and at most four years. Section 14(a) – Giving of bribes to a member of Parliament (637/2011) (1) A person who promises, offers or gives a member of Parliament a gift or other benefit that is to be deemed other than customary hospitality, intended for him or her or another person in order to have the member of Parliament act or refrain from acting in his or her parliamentary mandate in a certain manner or as a reward for such action, and the act is conducive towards clearly undermining confidence in the independence of the exercise of the parliamentary mandate, shall be sentenced for giving of bribes to a member of Parliament to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years.