Passive corruption

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. 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.