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Passive corruption, in Brazilian criminal law, is one of the crimes committed by public officials against the general administration.
Corruption can be of two types:
- Active, referring to the briber; or
- Passive, referring to the corrupted public official.
Some legislations define both behaviors as the same crime.[1] In the case of the crime of corruption, Brazilian legislation adopted, exceptionally, the pluralistic theory, as it chose to define two different crimes: active corruption, in Article 333 of the Penal Code, and passive corruption, in Article 317.
- ^ JESUS, p. 149