Article 245 Federal Criminal Code

For the crime of falsification of documents to be punishable as such, the following requirements must concur:

I.- That the forger proposes to obtain some profit for himself or for another, or to cause harm to society, to the State or to a third party;

II.- That harm results or can result to society, to the State or to a private individual, whether in the property of the latter or in his person, in his honor or in his reputation, and

III.- That the forger makes the falsification without the consent of the person to whom harm results or can result or without that of the person in whose name the document was made.