Article 254 Bis 1 Federal Criminal Code

There shall be sanctioned with imprisonment of from one to three years and with from five hundred to five thousand days of fine, anyone who by himself or through an interposed person, in the practice of a verification visit, by any means alters, destroys or perturbs in total or partial form documents, images or electronic files that contain information or data, with the object of diverting, hindering or impeding the investigation of a possible criminal act or the practice of the administrative proceeding.