Article 234 Federal Criminal Code

Whoever commits the crime of counterfeiting of currency shall be imposed from five to twelve years of imprisonment and up to five hundred days fine.

For the effects of this Chapter, currency means the banknotes and the metal pieces, national or foreign, that have legal tender in the issuing country.

Whoever produces, stores, distributes or introduces into the national territory any document or piece that contains images or other elements used in circulating coins, and that for this reason are suitable to deceive the public, for being confusable with legally issued coins, commits the crime of counterfeiting of currency. Whoever commits this crime in the degree of attempt shall be imposed from four to eight years of imprisonment and up to three hundred days fine.

The penalty established in the first paragraph of this article shall also be imposed on whoever knowingly makes use of counterfeited currency.