- five to ten years of imprisonment, if all the money unduly demanded or received or whose collection was ordered was equal to or higher than 50,000 francs. The attempted commission of this misdemeanour shall be punished same as the actual commission of the misdemeanour. ARTICLE 109: In the cases spelt out in the previous article, a fine, which will not be higher than twice the money unduly demanded or received, shall levied. SECTION VII: INTERFERENCE FROM NATURAL PERSONS VESTED WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITY OR TASKED WITH PUBLIC SERVICE MISSIONS OR GIVEN AN ELECTIVE OFFICE IN BUSINESS AFFAIRS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THEIR POSITION PARAGRAPHE I: UNLAWFUL ACQUISITION OF AN INTEREST: ARTICLE 110: Any civil servant, pursuant to the terms of this code, who, either openly, through simulated acts, or through third parties, acquires or receives any interest whatsoever in deeds, arbitration awards, companies or stateowned which at the time of the act he/she was tasked with administering or monitoring, or in a business undertaking whose payment or liquidation he/she was tasked with, shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months at least to two years at most and will be ordered to a pay a fine that may not be more than one quarter of the restitutions or compensations. Any civil servant tasked on account of his/her position with monitoring or directly auditing a private company and who, either on holiday, unavailability, retirement destitution or revocation and for a period of five years as from employment termination, excluding the case of hereditary transfer as concerns assets, takes or receives a share through work, consultancy or assets in concessions, companies or managements that were directly under his/her monitoring or auditing, shall be punished with the same term of imprisonment and a fine of 500, 000 francs. The managers of a concession, firm, and state-owned company who are considered accomplices shall receive the same penalties. The convicts may also be suspended from occupying a state position for a period of five years or more. ARTICLE 111: The fact that a natural person vested with public authority or tasked with a public service mission or given an elective office takes, receives or keeps directly or indirectly any interest whatsoever in a firm or an endeavour in which it , at the time of the act, fully or partially , is tasked with monitoring, administering , liquidating or paying, shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months at least to two years at most as well as a fine which may not be more than one quarter of the restitutions or compensation. PARAGRAPH II: FAVOURITISM ARTICLE 112: Any natural person vested with public authority, tasked with a public service mission, given an elected office, working as a representative, administrator or agent of the State, a local government, a state institution or a state company, a majority-state-owned company, a legal entity under private law acting on behalf of the state or a legal entity under public law benefiting from its financial support or its backing, as well as any other person acting on behalf of the above mentioned persons, as well as their accomplices who obtains or attempts to obtain for another an unjustified advantage through an act that is against the rules of the public contracts code, with the goal of ensuring free and equal access to the candidates in public contracts, shall be punished with imprisonment of between two to eighteen months and a fine of between 5,000;000 to 100, 000, 000 francs or only one of these two penalties. Without prejudice to disciplinary proceedings, the perpetrator may also be banned from performing the duties that he/she performed during the contract award for a period equal to or lower than three years. The court seized may order the publication, at the expense of the offender, of all or a copy of its ruling in a newspaper authorized to carry legal advertisements. 23