Chapter IV
International cooperation
Article 43.
International cooperation
1. States Parties shall cooperate in criminal matters in accordance with
articles 44 to 50 of this Convention. Where appropriate and consistent with
their domestic legal system, States Parties shall consider assisting each other in
investigations of and proceedings in civil and administrative matters relating to
corruption.
2. In matters of international cooperation, whenever dual criminality is
considered a requirement, it shall be deemed fulfilled irrespective of whether the
laws of the requested State Party place the offence within the same category of
offence or denominate the offence by the same terminology as the requesting
State Party, if the conduct underlying the offence for which assistance is sought
is a criminal offence under the laws of both States Parties.
Article 44.
Extradition
1. This article shall apply to the offences established in accordance with
this Convention where the person who is the subject of the request for extradition is present in the territory of the requested State Party, provided that the
offence for which extradition is sought is punishable under the domestic law of
both the requesting State Party and the requested State Party.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article, a State
Party whose law so permits may grant the extradition of a person for any of the
offences covered by this Convention that are not punishable under its own
domestic law.
3. If the request for extradition includes several separate offences, at least
one of which is extraditable under this article and some of which are not
extraditable by reason of their period of imprisonment but are related to offences established in accordance with this Convention, the requested State Party
may apply this article also in respect of those offences.
4. Each of the offences to which this article applies shall be deemed to
be included as an extraditable offence in any extradition treaty existing between
States Parties. States Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable
offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them. A State Party
whose law so permits, in case it uses this Convention as the basis for extradition,
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