Article 220 Federal Criminal Code

Commits the crime of abusive exercise of functions:

I.- The public official who, in the performance of his employment, position or commission, unlawfully grants by himself or through an intermediary, contracts, concessions, permits, licenses, authorizations, franchises, exemptions or carries out purchases or sales or performs any legal act that produces economic benefits for the public official himself, his spouse, descendant or ascendant, relatives by consanguinity or affinity up to the fourth degree, any third party with whom he has emotional, economic or direct administrative dependency bonds, partners or companies of which the public official or the persons referred to above form part;

II.- The public official who, availing himself of the information that he possesses by reason of his employment, position or commission, whether or not it is the subject matter of his functions, and which is not of public knowledge, makes by himself, or through an intermediary, investments, transfers or acquisitions, or any other act that produces some undue economic benefit for the public official or for any of the persons mentioned in the first section.

Whoever commits the crime of abusive exercise of functions shall be imposed the following sanctions:

When the amount to which the operations referred to in this article amount does not exceed the equivalent of five hundred times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating at the time the crime is committed, from three months to two years of imprisonment and from thirty to one hundred days fine shall be imposed.

When the amount to which the operations referred to in this article amount exceeds five hundred times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating at the time the crime is committed, from two years to twelve years of imprisonment and from one hundred to one hundred fifty days fine shall be imposed.