{"id":19541,"date":"2017-10-16T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basham.com.mx\/Blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:55:14","slug":"inconstitucionalidad-del-articulo-115-de-la-ley-de-instituciones-de-credito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/unconstitutionality-of-article-115-of-the-credit-institutions-law-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconstitutionality of Article 115 of the Credit Institutions Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unconstitutionality of Article 115 of the Credit Institutions Law<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last October 4, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (\"SCJN\"), ruled on amparo en revisi\u00f3n 1214\/2016, in which it declared the unconstitutionality of Article 115 of the Law of Credit Institutions, which empowers the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (\"SHCP\") to block bank accounts of taxpayers for alleged money laundering and terrorist financing operations, prior to the development of an administrative proceeding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The matter originated when the Financial Intelligence Unit (\"UIF\") of the SHCP included the complainant company in the list of blocked persons, which resulted in the freezing of all its accounts, and the prohibition to open new accounts or the cancellation of existing accounts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both in the amparo and in the review, the complainant argued that the blocking of the accounts without prior notification violated her right to the presumption of innocence and her right to a hearing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the first instance, the District Judge considered that these rights had not been violated, but in the review before the SCJN, the first instance sentence was reversed and the plaintiff company was granted an injunction against the general rule, considering it unconstitutional. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This constitutes a relevant precedent in the investigation of alleged money laundering and terrorist financing operations, as it constitutionally limits one of the most effective, but also the most discretionary, tools of the SHCP in this area.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lawyers of the Money Laundering Prevention area of Basham, Ringe y Correa are at your disposal to answer any questions related to this matter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ATTENTIVELY<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LIC. DANIEL DEL RIO...................................delrio@basham.com.mx<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LIC. RODOLFO BARREDA ALVARADO...........rbarreda@basham.com.mx<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LIC. JULIO COPO TERR\u00c9S...........................jcopo@basham.com.mx<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mexico City, October 16, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inconstitucionalidad del art\u00edculo 115 de la Ley de Instituciones de Cr\u00e9dito \u00a0 El pasado 4 de octubre la Primera Sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Naci\u00f3n (\u201cSCJN\u201d), resolvi\u00f3 el amparo en revisi\u00f3n 1214\/2016, en el que declar\u00f3 la inconstitucionalidad del art\u00edculo 115 de la Ley de Instituciones de Cr\u00e9dito, que faculta a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1299,1252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-lavado-de-dinero","category-espanol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}