Article 222 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TEN. Crimes involving acts of corruption 18-07-2016, 05-11-2018, 12-04-2019 · CHAPTER X. Bribery
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commit the crime of bribery:
I.- The public official who by himself, or through an intermediary, unlawfully requests or receives for himself or for another, money or any benefit, or accepts a promise, in order to do or to refrain from doing an act proper to his functions inherent to his employment, position or commission;
II.- Anyone who gives, promises or delivers any benefit to any of the persons mentioned in article 212 of this Code, so that he does or omits an act related to his functions, his employment, position or commission, and
III.- The federal legislator who, in the exercise of his functions or attributions, and within the framework of the respective process of approval of the budget of expenditures, manages or requests:
a)The assignment of resources in favor of a public entity, demanding or obtaining, for himself or for a third party, a commission, gift or consideration, in money or in kind, other than that which corresponds to him for the exercise of his charge;
b)The granting of contracts for public works or services in favor of determined natural persons or legal persons.
The same penalty shall be applied to any person who manages or requests in the name or in representation of the federal legislator the assignments of resources or granting of contracts referred to in subparagraphs a) and b) of this article.
Whoever commits the crime of bribery shall be imposed the following sanctions:
When the amount or the value of the gift, of the goods or the promise 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, 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 the gift, the goods, promise or performance exceeds five hundred times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating at the time the crime is committed, from two to fourteen years of imprisonment and from one hundred to one hundred fifty days fine shall be imposed.
In no case shall the money or gifts delivered be returned to those responsible for the crime of bribery; they shall be applied for the benefit of the State.