Looking at the history, definition and reasons for the prohibition of bribery

High amounts bribery and its negative impacts on the economy of countries and that bribery has become today a global problem¡ have made countries to think to perform important and significant actions to fight against bribery are common at the international level¡ in addition to the criminalization of bribery in their domestic legislation and adopting severe punishment for its perpetrators which an obvious example is the «United Nations Convention for Combating Corruption Act of 2003». Since the corruption and bribery cause the creation of the third part of the economy called the «hidden economy» and underlie committing other crimes¡ such as customs crimes ¡ smuggling¡ destruction of government documents and money laundering¡ so in this paper we investigate the bribery from the perspective of the history of developments in criminal law¡ also the definition of this crime in Iran''s law and the reasons for the prohibition of bribery in Islamic Law.