Abuse of Trust

Mexico’s Federal Penal Code has a crime called abuso de confianza, abuse of trust. Article 382 punishes whoever, to someone’s harm, disposes of another person’s movable property “de la que se le haya transmitido la tenencia y no el dominio” (of which he was given possession, but not ownership).

The penalty depends on the amount. It starts at up to one year in prison. It reaches six to twelve years when the amount is more than 2,000 times the salario, the wage that the article uses as its unit of measure.

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