The Criminal Code, agreed between the Government and the PP being still Ministry of Justice Mariano Fernandez Bermejo, was finally approved by the Government yesterday. Now it is being submitted to Parliament for final processing.
Among other developments, the new text includes increased penalties for crimes related to corruption and sexual abuse of children under 13 years and probation, a security measure that may apply to dangerous offenders (such as terrorists and rapists) once they have completed their prison sentences. It also provides for terrorist killings, which will never expire and re-classify the crime of piracy, which disappeared after the new criminal code dated 1995.
In its new reform, the Criminal Code aims to corner the corrupted either by a "more comprehensive" criminalization of bribery as by increasing the penalties for Urban Planning criminals who have to pay heavy fines and whose illegal incomes will always be confiscated.
For the first time, authorities and officials who turn a blind eye to illegal construction will also be punished. Prison sentences will also be increased, up to four years for each illegal work.
Also, in the field of urban planning corruption, this new Criminal code will expand the expiration timeframes of criminal offences and will punish both the inspectors who hide illegal acts and those who skip mandatory inspections.
In the private sector, and as it happens to bribery, it will punish the conduct of those who attempt to corrupt company managers.
Another important chapter covered by the reform is focused on child sexual abuse and child prostitution. A new creation will be the crime of recruitment of minors for pornographic performances, which will punish those who profit from it; it will also punish clients of prostitution when having relations with minors or persons unable to decide for themselves.
I miss: A strong regulation effort on financiation and public order. Financiation has been contemplated for decades as almost an independent reality which could escape to the need of consideration of the commun good and the public order. Clear legal principles to start with are very much needed as finances and finantial proffessions seems to be far from the outreach of that Law who reaches us all... and we all need rules.
What do you think?
It seems to be my passion these days... laws for the finantial sector.
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