Article 216 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TEN. Crimes involving acts of corruption 18-07-2016, 05-11-2018, 12-04-2019 · CHAPTER IV. Coalition of public officials
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commit the crime of coalition of public officials, those who, having such status, combine to adopt measures contrary to a law, regulation or other provisions of a general nature, to impede their enforcement, or to resign from their posts with the purpose of impeding or suspending the public administration in any of its branches. Employees who combine in the exercise of their constitutional rights or who make use of the right to strike do not commit this crime.
Whoever commits the crime of coalition of public officials shall be imposed two years to seven years of imprisonment and a fine of thirty to three hundred times the daily value of the Measurement and Updating Unit at the moment of the commission of the crime.