Changes in Swiss Criminal Legislation Concerning Crimes of Corruption

Zdigitalizowano i udostępniono w ramach projektu pn. Rozbudowa otwartych zasobów naukowych Repozytorium Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, dofinansowanego z programu „Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki” Ministra Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie umowy SONB/SP/512497/2021Changes in Swiss criminal law concerning the penalization of corruption have been chosen as main topic of the article. The first part deals with, description of shortcomings of Swiss criminal law in the field of corruption. Then the first part describes the danger of corruption in Switzerland comparing it also with Polish statistics. The second part describes penal Swiss regulations penalizing the different forms of corruption with some comparisons to Polish criminal regulationsMagdalena Perkowska graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Law University in Białystok (Poland) writing her master thesis on Combating money laundering in Polish and Swiss law. 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