Article 107 Federal Criminal Code

When the law does not provide otherwise, the criminal action that arises from an offense that can only be prosecuted by complaint of the offended person or some other equivalent act shall prescribe in one year, counted from the day on which those who may file the complaint or the equivalent act have knowledge of the offense and of the offender, and in three years, in the absence of that circumstance.

But once the requirement of procedural admissibility has been fulfilled within the aforementioned period, the prescription shall continue to run according to the rules for offenses prosecutable ex officio.