Article 221 Federal Criminal Code

Commits the crime of trafficking in influence:

I.- The public official who by himself or through an intermediary promotes or manages the unlawful processing or resolution of public business unrelated to the responsibilities inherent to his employment, position or commission, and

II.- Any person who promotes the unlawful conduct of the public official or lends himself to the promotion or management referred to in the preceding section.

III.- The public official who by himself, or through an intermediary unduly, requests or promotes any resolution or the carrying out of any act that is the subject matter of the employment, position or commission of another public official, which produces economic benefits for himself or for any of the persons referred to in the first section of Article 220 of this Code.

IV.- The private individual who, without being legally authorized to intervene in public business, affirms that he has influence over the public officials empowered to make decisions within such business, and intervenes before them to promote the unlawful resolution thereof, in exchange for obtaining a benefit for himself or for another.

Whoever commits the crime of trafficking in influence shall be imposed from two years to six years of imprisonment and from thirty to one hundred days fine.