Section 12, The Anti-Corruption Act, 2000

(1) Any person who misappropriates public revenue, public funds or property is guilty of an offence. (2) A person misappropriates public revenue, public funds or property if he wilfully commits an act, whether by himself, with or through another person, by which the Government, a public corporation or a local authority is deprived of any revenue, funds or other financial interest or property belonging or due to the Government, the public corporation or local authority. Misappropriation of 13. Any person who, being a member or an officer or otherwise in the management of any organization which is a donor funds or property. public body, dishonestly appropriates anything, whether property or otherwise, which has been donated to such body in the name, or for the benefit of the people of Sierra Leone or a section thereof is guilty of an offence. Impeding foreign investment. 14. Any public officer who knowingly— a. performs or abstains from performing any act in his capacity as a public officer; b. expedites, delays, hinders or prevents the performance of any act, whether by himself or by any other public officer, in his or that other public officer's capacity as a public officer; or c. assists, favours, hinders or delays any person in the transaction of any business with a public body, in order that a non-citizen investor or potential investor is coerced, compelled or induced to abandon his investment or, as the case may be, is prevented from proceeding with his initial investment, to the advantage of any other person is guilty of the offence of corruption in respect of foreign investment and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding thirty million leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and imprisonment. Corrupt transactions with agents. 15. (1) Any agent who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, solicits or accepts any advantage as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of his— a. performing or abstaining from performing or having performed or abstained from performing any act in relation to his principal's affairs or business; or b. showing or abstaining from showing, or having shown or abstained from showing, favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business, (2) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, offers any advantage to any agent as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of the agent's— a. performing or abstaining from performing or having performed or abstained from performing any act in relation to this principal's affairs or business; or b. showing or abstaining from showing, or having shown or abstained from showing, favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business, (3) Any person who knowingly gives to any agent, or an agent who knowingly uses, with intent to deceive his principal, any receipt, account, or other document in respect of which the principal is interested, and which contains any statement which is false or erroneous or defective in any material particular, and which to his knowledge is intended to mislead the principal, is guilty of an offence. (4) a person convicted of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding thirty million leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (5) In this section— "agent" includes a public officer and any person employed by or acting for another; "principal" includes an employer. P ART V — POWERS OF INVESTIGATION Powers of Commission and servants to request information.