Article 248 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
Imprisonment of from two to six years and a fine of from one hundred to three hundred days shall be imposed on anyone who, with the purpose of accusing someone as responsible for a crime before the authority, simulates against him the existence of material evidence that gives rise to a presumption of his responsibility.