Article 247 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE THIRTEEN. Falsity · CHAPTER V. Falsity in judicial statements and in reports given to an authority
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
From five to twelve years of imprisonment and from three hundred to five hundred days fine shall be imposed:
On anyone who, examined by the judicial authority as a witness or expert, fails to tell the truth about the fact that is being investigated, or aspects, quantities, qualities or other circumstances that are relevant to establish the meaning of an opinion or expert report, whether affirming, denying or maliciously concealing the existence of any data that may serve as proof of the truth or falsehood of the main fact, or that increases or decreases its gravity, or that serves to establish the nature or particularities of a technical or scientific order that matter for the authority to pronounce a resolution on the matter in question in the case in which the testimony or the expert opinion is given.
When a penalty of more than twenty years of imprisonment is imposed on the convicted person for the false testimony or expert report, the sanction shall be from eight to fifteen years of imprisonment and from five hundred to eight hundred days fine.