Article 383 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-SECOND. Crimes against persons in their patrimony · CHAPTER II. Breach of trust
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The following is considered breach of trust for the purposes of the penalty:
I.- The act of disposing of or removing a thing, by its owner, if it has been attached and they hold it in their possession in the capacity of judicial depositary, or if they have given it in pledge and keep it in their possession as depositary by virtue of a contract entered into with a Credit Institution, to the detriment of the latter.
II.- The act of disposing of the deposited thing, or removing it, by the judicial depositary or the one designated by or before the administrative or labor authorities.
III.- The act of a person making appear as their own a deposit that guarantees the release on bail of a defendant and to which they are not entitled to ownership.