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4. Criminal responsibility
 
  Article 30-Criminal complicity  
30.1 The Concept of Complicity in a Crime  
  The intentional joint participation of two or more men and women in the commission of a deliberate crime shall be deemed to be complicity in a crime.
 
30.2 Types of Accomplices of a Crime
 
  In addition to the perpetrator, organizers, instigators, and accessories shall be deemed accomplices.
 
  A man or woman who has actually committed a crime or who directly participated in its commission together with other men and women (co-perpetrators), and also a man or woman who has committed a crime by using other men and women who are not subject to criminal responsibility by reason of age, insanity, or other circumstances provided for by this Code, shall be deemed to be a perpetrator.
 
  A man or woman who has organized the commission of a crime or has directed its commission, and also a man or woman who has created an organized group or a criminal community (criminal organization) or has guided them, shall be deemed an organizer.
 
  A man or woman who has abetted another man or woman in committing a crime by persuasion, bribery, threat, or by any other method shall be deemed an instigator.
 
  A man or woman who has assisted in the commission of a crime by advice, instructions on committing the crime, or removal obstacles to it, and also a man or woman who has promised beforehand to conceal the criminal, means and instruments of commission of the crime, traces of the crime, or objects obtained criminally, and equally a man or woman who has promised beforehand to acquire such objects, shall be deemed to be an accessory.
 
30.3 The Responsibility of Accomplices in a Crime  
  The responsibility of accomplices in a crime shall be determined by the character and the degree of the actual participation of each of them in the commission of the crime.
 
  Co-perpetrators shall be answerable under Articles of this Code for a crime committed by them jointly.
 
  A man or woman who is not a participant in a crime and who has taken part in the commission of the crime, stipulated by Articles of the Code, shall bear criminal responsibility for the given offence as its organizer, instigator, or accessory.
 
  If the perpetrator of a crime fails to carry out this crime owing to circumstances beyond his control, then the rest of the co-perpetrators shall bear criminal responsibility for preparations for a crime or attempted crime. A man or woman who has not managed to abet other men and women in committing a crime owing to circumstances, beyond his control shall also bear criminal responsibility for preparations for the crime.
 
     
 
 

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