b) Employing treacherous tricks; c) Knowing that the bribes are State property; d) Committing the offense more than once; e) The bribe has a value of between ten million dong and under fifty million dong; f) Causing other serious consequences. 3. Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to between eight years• and fifteen years of imprisonment: a) The bribe has a value of between fifty million dong and under three hundred million dong; b) Causing other very serious consequences. 4. Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to between twelve and twenty years of imprisonment: a) The bribe has a value of three hundred million dong or more; b) Other particularly serious consequences are caused. 5. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between one and five times the value of the bribe. 6. The bribery intermediaries who take initiative in reporting such before being detected, shall be exempt from penal liability. Article 291.- Taking advantage of one•s influence over persons with positions and powers to seek personal benefits 1. Those who directly or through intermediaries accept money, property or other material benefits in any form, valued between five hundred thousand dong and under fifty million dong, or under five hundred thousand dong but cause serious consequences, who have already been disciplined for such act but continue to commit it, to use their influence to entice persons with positions and powers to do or not to do things within their responsibility or to do things they are not allowed to do, shall be sentenced to between one and five years of imprisonment. 2. Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to between three and ten years of imprisonment: a) Committing the offense more than once; b) Accepting the money, property or other material benefits valued at fifty million