Article 239 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE THIRTEEN. Falsity · CHAPTER II. Falsification and improper use of bearer instruments, public credit documents and documents relating to credit
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Whoever commits the crime of counterfeiting of bearer instruments and public credit documents shall be imposed from four to ten years of imprisonment and a fine of two hundred fifty to three thousand pesos.
Whoever counterfeits commits the crime spoken of in the preceding paragraph:
I.- Obligations or other public credit documents of the treasury, or the interest or dividend coupons of those instruments.
II.- The obligations of the public debt of another nation, interest or dividend coupons of those instruments.
III.- The obligations and other instruments legally issued by companies or enterprises or by the public administrations of the Federation, of the States or of any Municipality, and the interest or dividend coupons of the documents mentioned.