21-6506. Commercial bribery.
(a) Commercial bribery is conferring, offering or agreeing to confer, or soliciting, accepting or agreeing to accept, any benefit as consideration for knowingly violating or agreeing to violate a duty of fidelity or trust by:
(1) An agent or employee of another;
(2) a person acting in a fiduciary capacity;
(3) a lawyer, physician, accountant, appraiser or other professional adviser;
(4) an officer, director, partner, manager or other participant in the affairs of a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association; or
(5) an arbitrator or other purportedly disinterested adjudicator or referee.
(b) Commercial bribery is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.
(c) A person who violates the provisions of this section may also be prosecuted for, convicted of, and punished for theft.
History: L. 2010, ch. 136, § 237; July 1, 2011.