through intermediaries money, property or other material interests in any form valued between five hundred thousand dong and under ten million dong, or under five hundred thousand dong but causing serious consequences, have already been disciplined for such act but continue to commit it, to use their influence and incite persons with positions and powers to do or not to do something within the sphere of their responsibility or directly related to their work or to do something they are not allowed to do, shall be sentenced to between one and six years of imprisonment. 2. Committing the offense in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to between six years and thirteen years of imprisonment: a) In an organized manner; b) Committing the offense more than once; c) The money, property or other material interests are valued between ten million dong and under fifty million dong; d) Causing other serious consequences. 3. Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to between thirteen and twenty years of imprisonment: a) The money, property or other material interests are valued between fifty million dong and under three hundred million dong; b) Causing other very serious consequences. 4. Committing the offense in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment or life imprisonment: a) The money, property or other material interests are valued at three hundred million dong or more; b) Causing other particularly serious consequences. 5. The offenders shall also be banned from holding certain posts for one to five years, may be subject to a fine of from one to five times the amount of money or the value of the property they have earned for their personal profits. Article 284.- Forgery in the course of employment 1. Those who, for self-seeking or other personal motivation, abuse their positions and/or powers to commit one of the following acts, shall be sentenced to between one and five years of imprisonment: a) Amending or falsifying contents of papers, documents;