Abstract

The increase in electricity fraud in Spain has led utility companies to demand more dissuasive measures and tougher penalties as a general prevention mechanism. In this paper we analyze the current criminal response through the systematic analysis of the criminal figures contemplated in Chapter VI, Title XIII of Book II of the Penal Code, which bears the rubric "of fraud of electric fluid and similar", as well as their effectiveness in order to solve a problem that is not isolated. Only the critique of the status quo of our regulation will allow us to improve and achieve the end of the criminal phenomenon, or at least the reduction of fraud in the electricity sector.