Article 250 of the Penal Code

  Penal Code

1. The Crime of fraud will be punished with prison terms of one to six years and a fine of six to twelve months, when:

1. Falls on basic necessities, homes or other goods of recognized social utility.

2.º It is perpetrated by abusing the signature of another, or by stealing, hiding or rendering useless, in whole or in part, any process, file, protocol or public or official document of any kind.

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3rd falls on assets that make up the artistic, historical, cultural or scientific heritage.

4th special gravity magazine, attending to the entity of the damage and the economic situation in which he leaves the victim or his family.

5. The value of the fraud exceeds 50,000 euros, or affects a large number of people.

6.º It is committed with abuse of the existing personal relationships between the victim and the fraudster, or the latter takes advantage of their business or professional credibility.

7th is committed litigation scam. The same is incurred by those who, in a judicial proceeding of any kind, manipulate the evidence on which they intend to base their allegations or use another fraud analogous procedural, causing error in the judge or court and leading him to issue a resolution that harms the economic interests of the other party or a third party.

8.º When committing a crime, the culprit would have been sentenced for at least three crimes included in this Chapter. Records that have been canceled or that should be canceled will not be taken into account.

2. If the circumstances included in numerals 4, 5, 6 or 7 concur with that of numeral 1 of the previous section, prison sentences of four to eight years and a fine of twelve to twenty-four months. The same penalty will be imposed when the value of the fraud exceeds 250,000 euros.

art 250 cp

Article 250 refers to the cases that are included under the Crime of fraud, which will have a prison sentence of 1 to 6 years and a fine of 6 to 12 months. Some of these aggravating factors of the penalties for fraud are procedural fraud and procedural fraud.

Article 250 of the Penal Code is part of the title dedicated to the crimes against property and against the socioeconomic order: