ERC proposes a new crime of embezzlement with up to three years less in prison when there is no profit motive

The sentences would go from between 2 and 6 years in prison to between 6 months and 3 years

MADRID, 9 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

ERC has presented this Friday a series of amendments to the proposal of PSOE and Unidas Podemos to repeal sedition, among which it proposes to create a new type within the crime of embezzlement to punish with less prison --with a sentence of between 6 months and 3 years in prison-- to those who embezzle public money but without personal gain.

Thus, it advocates creating a new article 432 bis according to which "the authority or public official who, without intending to appropriate it, allocates to private uses and unrelated to public function, the public patrimony placed in his charge by reason of his functions or on the occasion of the same, he will incur a prison sentence of six months to three years, and suspension from employment or public office from one to four years".

Currently, article 432 of the Criminal Code imposes penalties of between 2 and 6 years in prison for "the authority or public official who commits the crime of article 252 on public property."

And that article 252 states that "will be punishable (...) those who, having powers to administer another's patrimony, emanating from the law, entrusted by the authority or assumed through a legal transaction, infringe them by exceeding the exercise of the same and , in this way, cause damage to the managed assets".

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