Article 389 Federal Criminal Code

Equated to the crime of fraud and sanctioned with imprisonment of six months to ten years and a fine of four hundred to four thousand pesos, is the act of availing oneself of the position held in the government, in a decentralized company or one with state participation, or in any group of union character, or of one's relations with the officials or leaders of such agencies, to obtain money, securities, gifts, presents or any other benefit, in exchange for promising or providing a job, a promotion or a wage increase in such agencies.