Article 400 Bis 1 Federal Criminal Code

The penalties provided in this Chapter shall be increased from one third up to one half, when the one who carries out any of the conduct provided in article 400 Bis of this Code has the character of counselor, administrator, officer, employee, agent or service provider of any person subject to the regime for the prevention of operations with resources of unlawful origin, or carries them out within the two years following having left any of said positions.

In addition, disqualification to perform employment, position or commission in legal persons subject to the prevention regime shall be imposed on them for a time equal to that of the imprisonment penalty imposed. The disqualification shall begin to run from the moment the imprisonment penalty has been served.

The penalties provided in this Chapter shall be doubled, if the conduct is committed by public officials in charge of preventing, detecting, reporting, investigating or judging the commission of crimes or executing criminal sanctions, as well as former public officials in charge of such functions who commit said conduct in the two years following their termination. In addition, disqualification to perform employment, position or commission shall be imposed on them for a time equal to that of the imprisonment penalty imposed. The disqualification shall begin to run from the moment the imprisonment penalty has been served.

Likewise, the penalties provided in this Chapter shall be increased by up to one half if the one who carries out any of the conduct provided in article 400 Bis, sections I and II, uses persons under eighteen years of age or persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act or who do not have the capacity to resist it.