THE LEGAL ENTITY AND THE FOREIGN PUBLIC OFFICIAL AS SUBJECTS OF INDUCEMENT TO BRIBERY

The article examines two institutional gaps in the range of subjects of the offence set out in Article 193¹ of the Code of Administrative Responsibility of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The author argues that the Criminal Code’s refusal to recognise legal entities as subjects of crime, combined with the freedom to choose the form of liability granted by Article 26 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, makes the administrative-law route the only coherent way of closing the gap. On the basis of comparative analysis, the article proposes the insertion of Article 193⁵ into the Code and the extension of the range of subjects under Article 193¹.