Article 400 Federal Criminal Code

Imprisonment of three months to three years and from fifteen to sixty days fine shall be applied, on anyone who:

I.- With profit motive, after the execution of the crime and without having participated in it, acquires, receives or conceals the product of it knowing of this circumstance.

If the one who received the thing by way of sale, pledge or under any concept, did not have knowledge of the unlawful origin of it, for not having taken the indispensable precautions to ensure that the person from whom they received it had the right to dispose of it, the penalty shall be reduced by up to one half;

II.- Provides aid or cooperation of any kind to the author of a crime, with knowledge of this circumstance, by agreement subsequent to the execution of the aforementioned crime;

III.- Conceals or favors the concealment of the person responsible for a crime, the effects, objects or instruments of the same or prevents it from being ascertained;

IV.Requested by the authorities, does not provide aid for the investigation of the crimes or for the pursuit of the offenders;

V.Does not procure, by the lawful means at their disposal and without risk to their person, to prevent the consummation of the crimes that they know are going to be committed or are being committed, unless they have the obligation to face the risk, in which case that provided in this article or in other applicable rules shall be attended to;

VI.Alters, modifies or unlawfully disturbs the place, traces or vestiges of the criminal act, and

VII.Diverts or obstructs the investigation of the criminal act in question or favors the accused in evading the action of justice.

The penalty provided in this article shall not be applied in the cases of sections III, in what refers to the concealment of the offender, and IV, when it deals with:

a)The ascendants and descendants by consanguinity or affinity;

b)The spouse, the concubine, the concubinary and collateral relatives by consanguinity up to the fourth degree, and by affinity up to the second; and

c)Those who are linked with the offender by love, respect, gratitude or close friendship derived from noble motives.

The provisions contained in the preceding paragraph and the exculpatory excuses provided in subparagraphs a) to c) shall not be applicable when the offender who is concealed is responsible for the crime of femicide or homicide.

The judge, taking into account the nature of the action, the personal circumstances of the accused and the others indicated in article 52, may impose in the cases of concealment referred to in sections I, first paragraph and II to IV of this article, instead of the indicated sanctions, up to two thirds of those that would correspond to the author of the crime; and must state in the judgment the reasons on which they base themselves to apply the sanction that this paragraph authorizes.