Article 400 Bis Federal Criminal Code

From five to fifteen years of imprisonment and from one thousand to five thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who, by themselves or through an intermediary carries out any of the following conduct:

I.Acquires, transfers, administers, guards, possesses, exchanges, converts, deposits, withdraws, gives or receives for any reason, invests, transfers, transports or moves, within the national territory, from it abroad or the reverse, resources, rights or property of any nature, when they have knowledge that they come from or represent the product of an unlawful activity, or

II.Conceals, covers up or attempts to conceal or cover up the nature, origin, location, destination, movement, ownership or title of resources, rights or property, when they have knowledge that they come from or represent the product of an unlawful activity.

For the purposes of this Chapter, it shall be understood that resources, rights or property of any nature are the product of an unlawful activity, when there exist well-founded indications or certainty that they come directly or indirectly, or represent the gains derived from the commission of some crime and their legitimate origin cannot be proven.

In the case of conduct provided in this Chapter, in which services of institutions that make up the financial system are used, the Public Prosecutor's Office shall at all times be empowered to investigate them. To exercise the criminal action the report of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit shall be required, which shall have the character of victim or offended party.

When the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, in exercise of its auditing powers, finds elements that allow presuming the commission of any of the crimes referred to in this Chapter, it must exercise with respect to them the verification powers that the laws confer on it and report the facts that probably may constitute said unlawful acts.