Resumen

ARTAZA VARELA, Osvaldo. Private-to-private corruption: harmfulness of the conduct and consequences of its criminalization according to a comparative criminal law analysis. RDUCN [online]. 2019, vol.26, 6.  Epub 09-Oct-2019. ISSN 0718-9753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-9753-2019-0006.

The phenomenon of criminalization of corruption in the private sector by considering a series of distinctions, detected in a comparative criminal law analysis, regarding the justification of its criminalization: the problem of the legal interests that may be protected through this crime. But also, by identifying a series of interpretative problems that may present as an outcome of the specific criminalization formula adopted by the legislator. In this sense, it is pretended to account for a series of difficulties associated to its criminalization, related to the possibility of emergence of some misunderstandings that may diminish the correct application of the crime, especially considering the legal interests that it pretends to protect.

Palabras clave : Business corruption; Bribery; Fair competition; Erosion (blurring) of the private and public sector division.

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