8. 国际上对腐败没有达成一致的法律定义。使用最广泛的腐败的一般定义是透明国际组织使用的定义，根据该定义，“滥用受委托的权力谋取私利”即为腐败。2《联合国反腐败公约》载有构成腐败罪行核心的罪行清单，即贿赂、贪污、影响力交易、滥用职权和资产非法增加。腐败犯罪会发生在公共部门和私营部门；但是根据定义，这些罪行都是以私人身份进行，通常这一点很明显。
8. There is no internationally agreed legal definition ofcorruption. The most widely used general definition of corruption is the one used by Transparency International, according to which corruption is “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”. 2 The United Nations Convention against Corruption contains a list of crimes that form the core of corruption offences, namely bribery, embezzlement, trading in influence, abuse of functions and illicit enrichment. Corruption crimes can be committed in both the public and the private sectors; by their very definition, however, they are undertaken in a private capacity and it is usually quite apparent that this is so.