The article is devoted to elucidation of the issues of criminal liability for corruption offenses. The attention focuses on the most fundamental of them, particularly those relating to following issues: place, form and scope of legislative definition corruption offenses; interrelation between national and international systems of corruption crimes as well as forms of guilt in some of these crimes; frequent changes to the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the presence of certain contradictions in the relevant criminal-legal norms; correctness in Ukrainian-language translation of a number of terms contained in the international conventions on combating corruption; ambiguous interpretation of separate criminal-legal terms relating to the specific characteristics of corruption offenses; determining the reasonable, fair and adequate punishment for corruption crimes. The author’s versions for solutions of problems outlined above and the ways to eliminate the relevant discussion points are proposed.