Article 218 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TEN. Crimes involving acts of corruption 18-07-2016, 05-11-2018, 12-04-2019 · CHAPTER VI. Extortion
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
A public official who, in that capacity and under the title of tax or contribution, surcharge, rent, income, wage or emolument, demands, by himself or through another, money, securities, services or any other thing that he knows is not due, or in a greater amount than that established by the Law, commits the crime of extortion by public officials (concusión).
Whoever commits the crime of extortion by public officials (concusión) shall be imposed the following sanctions:
When the amount or the value of what is unduly demanded does not exceed the equivalent of five hundred days of Units of Measurement and Updating at the time the crime is committed, or is not valuable, from three months to two years of imprisonment and from thirty to one hundred days fine shall be imposed.
When the amount or the value of what is unduly demanded exceeds five hundred days of Units of Measurement and Updating at the time the crime is committed, from two years to twelve years of imprisonment and a fine of one hundred to one hundred fifty days fine shall be imposed.