Article 389 Bis Federal Criminal Code

Anyone who by themselves or through an intermediary, causes public or private harm by subdividing and transferring or promising to transfer the ownership, the possession or any other right over an urban or rural plot of land, their own or another's, with or without buildings, without the prior permit of the competent administrative authorities, or when, if such permit exists, the requirements indicated therein have not been satisfied, commits the crime of fraud. This crime shall be sanctioned even in the case of failure to pay in whole or in part.

For criminal purposes, subdividing means the division of land into lots.

This crime shall be sanctioned with the penalties provided in article 386 of this Code, with the exception of the fine mentioned in the third section of said provision, which shall be raised up to fifty thousand pesos.