Article 231 Federal Criminal Code

From two to six years of imprisonment, from one hundred to three hundred days fine and suspension and disqualification for a term up to the same as that of the penalty established above for the exercise of the profession shall be imposed on lawyers, employers, or litigants who are not ostensibly sponsored by lawyers, when they commit any of the following crimes:

I.- To allege knowingly false facts, or nonexistent or repealed laws; and

II.- To request terms to prove what notoriously cannot be proven or will not benefit their party; to promote articles or incidents that give rise to the suspension of the trial or manifestly inadmissible remedies or in any other way to procure delays that are notoriously unlawful.

III.- To knowingly and basing himself on false or valueless documents or on false witnesses, exercise an action or oppose exceptions against another, before judicial or administrative authorities; and

IV.- To simulate a legal act or a judicial act or writing, or to alter elements of proof and present them in trial, with the purpose of obtaining a judgment, resolution or administrative act contrary to the law.