Article 410 — Corruption Committed by Arbitrators and Other

Persons. (1) Any conciliator, arbitrator, juror, trustee or liquidator, translator or interpreter engaged by the public authorities in their technical capacity, or expert testifying before or giving his opinion to judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings, who solicits or accepts an advantage or gift from a person interested in the matter, in consideration for the performance or omission of an act in violation of the duties proper to his office, is punishable, according to the circumstances of the case, with one of the penalties prescribed under the first three sub-articles of Article 408 (2) Whenever one of the persons mentioned under sub- article (1) solicits or accepts an advantage or gift, before or after performing an act proper to his office or duty, he shall, according to the circumstances of the case, be liable to one of the penalties prescribed under the first two sub-articles of Article 409 of this Code.