Article 222 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TEN. Crimes involving acts of corruption 18-07-2016, 05-11-2018, 12-04-2019 · CHAPTER XI. Bribery of foreign public officials
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The penalties provided in the preceding article shall be imposed on anyone who, with the purpose of obtaining or retaining for himself or for another person undue advantages in the development or conduct of international commercial transactions, offers, promises or gives, by himself or through an intermediary, money or any other gift, whether in goods or services:
I.To a foreign public official, for his benefit or that of a third party, so that said public official manages or refrains from managing the processing or resolution of matters related to the functions inherent to his employment, position or commission;
II.To a foreign public official, for his benefit or that of a third party, so that said public official manages the processing or resolution of any matter that is outside the scope of the functions inherent to his employment, position or commission, or
III.To any person so that he appears before a foreign public official and requests of him or proposes to him to carry out the processing or resolution of any matter related to the functions inherent to the employment, position or commission of the latter.
For the purposes of this article, foreign public official means any person who performs an employment, position or commission in the legislative, executive or judicial branch or in an autonomous public body in any order or level of government of a foreign State, whether designated or elected; any person in the exercise of a function for an authority, body or public enterprise or one with state participation of a foreign country; and any official or agent of an international public body or organization.
When any of the crimes included in this article is committed in the cases referred to in article 11 of this Code, the judge shall impose on the legal person up to one thousand days fine and may decree its suspension or dissolution, taking into consideration the degree of knowledge of the administrative bodies regarding the bribery in the international transaction and the damage caused or the benefit obtained by the legal person.