PSOE and ERC, with the support of Unidas Podemos, have agreed on a compromise amendment on the crime of embezzlement which contemplates penalties of one to four years in prison and special disqualification from two to six years for the diversion of public assets for a purpose other than that intended, that is, two years less than that contemplated for the maximum penalties in the current legislation.
“The authority or public official who, without being included in the previous articles, gives to the public patrimony that he will administer a public application different from the one for which it was intendedwill incur prison sentences of one to four years and special disqualification from employment or public office for two to six yearsif serious damage or obstruction of the service to which he was consigned results, and of disqualification from employment or public office of one to three years and a fine of three to twelve months, if it does not result, “says the outgoing text of the transaction to which he has had access to this medium.
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