TOWARDS THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROMISING/OFFERING A BRIBE AND CONSENTING TO A BRIBE IN KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

At present in Kazakhstan, the increase in the number of corrupt criminal offences, including on the partof high officials, heads of a number of Kazakhstani companies, is due to a stronger political will of the headof state to resolutely oppose corruption. Such a desire allows paying attention to criminal law norms, whichoccupy an important place in the set of measures to combat a systemic vice of the state, jeopardising nationalsecurity. The potential of criminal law in anti-corruption policy has not been exhausted. The discussion ofanti-corruption fight is very relevant against the background of possible implementation of norms of anticorruption international standards into the Kazakh criminal law, which contradict the doctrinal provisionsof the Kazakh criminal law. This study is devoted to the assessment of possible criminalisation of promising,offering and agreeing to receive a bribe in order to strengthen the criminal law fight against corruption. Theproposed changes, in the author's opinion, do not allow to hope that they will ultimately serve the realisationof a useful goal of Kazakhstan's anti-corruption policy, and open the ground for aninformed discussion onfurther fight against corruption.