Article 4 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · PRELIMINARY TITLE
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The crimes committed in foreign territory by a Mexican against Mexicans or against foreigners, or by a foreigner against Mexicans, shall be punished in the Republic, in accordance with the federal laws, if the following requirements concur:
I.- That the accused be in the Republic;
II.- That the offender has not been definitively judged in the country in which he committed the crime, and
III.- That the infraction of which he is accused has the character of a crime in the country in which it was executed and in the Republic.