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Corruption (ICCS 0703)
CORRUPTION refers to the unlawful acts as defined in the United Nations Convention against Corruption and other national and international legal instruments against corruption. It refers to the acts of active and passive bribery of national public officials; active and passive bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations; active and passive bribery in the private sector.
INCLUSIONS: Bribery; Embezzlement; Abuse of Functions; Trading in influence; Illicit enrichment; and Other acts of corruption not described or classified in other categories of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) categories 07031 -07035.
EXCLUSIONS: A course of action demanded from a person by another person through the use of force, threat, intimidation, threat to reveal compromising information, or the threat of defamation (0205).

[Source: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp. 70-72. Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]
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