Article 224 Federal Criminal Code

Whoever, by reason of his employment, position or commission in the public service, has incurred in illicit enrichment shall be sanctioned. Illicit enrichment exists when the public official cannot prove the legitimate increase of his patrimony or the legitimate origin of the goods in his name or of those with respect to which he conducts himself as owner.

For the effects of the preceding paragraph, among the goods that the public officials acquire or with respect to which they conduct themselves as owners, those received by or disposed of by their spouse and their direct economic dependents shall be computed, unless the public official proves that these obtained them by themselves.

It shall not be illicit enrichment in the case that the increase of the patrimony is the product of conduct that fits another hypothesis of this Title. In this case the hypothesis and the corresponding sanction shall be applied, without giving rise to the concurrence of crimes.

Whoever commits the crime of illicit enrichment shall be imposed the following sanctions:

Forfeiture for the benefit of the State of those goods whose origin cannot be proven.

When the amount to which the illicit enrichment amounts does not exceed the equivalent of five thousand times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating, 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 illicit enrichment amounts exceeds the equivalent of five thousand times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating, from two years to fourteen years of imprisonment and a fine of one hundred to one hundred fifty days fine shall be imposed.