Article 232 Federal Criminal Code

In addition to the penalties mentioned, from three months to three years of imprisonment may be imposed.

I.- For sponsoring or helping various contenders or parties with opposing interests, in the same business or in connected businesses, or when the sponsorship of one is accepted and afterwards that of the opposing party is admitted;

II.- For abandoning the defense of a client or business without justified cause and causing damage, and

III.- On the defender of an accused, whether private or by appointment, who only limits himself to accepting the charge and to requesting the bail release mentioned in section I of article 20 of the Constitution, without promoting further proofs or directing him in his defense.