Damages
The crime of damage consists of destroying, rendering unusable, or damaging something. This is a crime that can include a wide variety of actions.
Property offences
Property offences encompass a wide range of unlawful acts that affect people’s assets and property, such as robbery, theft, fraud, embezzlement, damage to property or financial fraud.
Price manipulation in public tenders and auctions
Article 262 of the Spanish Penal Code punishes certain behaviors related to the manipulation of public tenders and auctions, with the aim of protecting the proper formation of prices. Specifically, it penalizes individuals who engage in any of the following conduct:
Frustration of execution and punishable insolvencies
The crimes of frustration of execution and punishable insolvency are regulated in articles 257 to 261 bis of the Penal Code, which sanction certain conduct carried out by the debtor that is detrimental to the credit rights of his creditors.
Electricity fraud and similar offenses
On the one hand, Article 255 of the Penal Code punishes the commission of fraud using electricity, gas, water, telecommunications or other element, energy or fluid belonging to others, by any of the following means:
Disloyal and improper management
The crimes of disloyal administration and misappropriation occur when a person, taking advantage of a relationship of trust or the management of other people’s assets.
Scam
The criminal conduct of the basic modality consists of using sufficient deception to produce error in another, inducing him to perform an act of disposal to his own or another’s detriment, acting with the intention of making a profit.
Usurpation
Articles 245 to 247 of the Spanish Penal Code regulate the crime of usurpation, which punishes conduct that infringes upon the right of possession or any other real right over real estate. Below, we will examine the different forms this crime can take.
Extortion
The crime of extortion is punished through art. 243 of the Penal Code, whose typical conduct consists of forcing another, with violence or intimidation, to perform or omit an act or legal transaction to the detriment of his or a third party’s assets, acting with the intention of making a profit.
Heist
The crime of theft is characterized by taking possession of other people’s property with the intention of making a profit.
Theft
The crime of theft consists of the appropriation of other people’s property without the use of violence or intimidation, with the intention of obtaining an economic benefit.
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Offences against personal liberty
Assistance in cases of unlawful detention, coercion or threats, ensuring the protection of fundamental rights and an effective defence.
Offences against privacy
Offences against privacy involve unlawful actions that violate an individual’s personal space, data, or confidential information. These include unauthorized surveillance, data breaches, and misuse of personal information.
Offences against sexual freedom
The Criminal Code distinguishes between sexual assault and sexual abuse. In both cases, the victim was subjected to sexual acts without their consent
Offences against family relations
Offences against family relations encompass a range of acts that directly affect the rights and duties arising from family life, such as failure to fulfil maintenance obligations, child abduction or family abandonment, amongst others.
Offences against the Public Administration
These include conduct that undermines the proper functioning of institutions and the impartial exercise of public office.
Offences against the administration of justice
Offences that directly undermine confidence in the judicial system and the proper conduct of criminal proceedings, and which may therefore have significant legal consequences.
Planning offences and environmental offences
These include acts that breach regulations governing land use planning, town and country planning, and the protection of the natural environment.
Offences against public health and safety
Behaviour that puts the life, physical safety or health of the general public at risk. This includes actions that may affect a large group of people, such as the sale of dangerous products, serious breaches of health regulations or the release of harmful substances.
Corporate and business offences
Corporate and business offences refer to illegal activities carried out by companies or individuals within an organization to gain financial or competitive advantage. They include fraud, corruption, money laundering, and regulatory violations.
Offences against public order
Offences against public order encompass conduct that disrupts social harmony, peaceful coexistence among citizens or the normal functioning of institutions. These include public disturbances, resistance to or disobedience of authority, and other acts that may give rise to situations of tension or insecurity in public spaces.
Prison law
Prison law comprises the body of legal provisions governing the enforcement of custodial sentences and measures imposed as a result of criminal offences. These provisions are set out primarily in the General Prison Act and are aimed, in general terms, at the rehabilitation and social reintegration of individuals sentenced to custodial sentences, as well as their custody and detention.
International criminal law
In the field of criminal law, there are many cases where comprehensive legal advice is required, and which demand a thorough understanding of international and EU criminal law in order to apply it correctly.
Criminal compliance
Design and implementation of corporate compliance programmes for businesses, preventing crime and reducing legal risks and corporate liability.
Criminal proceedings
Advice and legal representation at every stage of criminal proceedings, from the initial investigation through to trial, appeals and the enforcement of sentences.
Crimes against the person
Defence in cases involving offences such as murder, assault or threats, protecting clients’ rights through robust and tailored legal strategies.