Article 177 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIVE. Crimes in matters of communication routes and correspondence · CHAPTER II. Violation of correspondence
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
To whoever intercepts private communications without a mandate of competent judicial authority, sanctions of six to twelve years of imprisonment and three hundred to six hundred days fine shall be applied.