Concept in Definition ABC

If a person allows someone to commit a crime, they are colluding with the offender. Consequently, he is not directly responsible for the criminal action, but acts as an accomplice, since his attitude tolerant and passive has facilitated the execution of an offense.

The term collusion comes from the Latin word conniventia, which is equivalent to pretense, dissimulation, permissiveness or concealment.

Three Illustrative Examples of Collusion

1- A labor inspector has the obligation to supervise the working conditions of companies. If instead of complying with his obligation he decides to "look the other way" and consent to the abuses of the workers, his position is connive and, therefore, he is an accomplice of a illegality.

2- A drug dealer organizes a network to distribute drugs. In order to carry out its criminal activity, it has a series of criminals and hitmen who work under its orders. In this context, it is likely that a member of the police is acting in collusion with the drug trafficker. In this case, his role will be to pretend that he is pursuing drug trafficking but is actually collaborating with a criminal activity.

3- The mayor of a locality has the purpose of modifying the normative urban planning in order to enrich yourself personally. To achieve his objective, he needs the collaboration of an official who is an accomplice in his actions.

The three examples listed above highlight that collusive actions are directly related to the delinquency and corruption.

A term proper to legal terminology

The word collusion is preferably used in the language legal. In this sense, other synonymous terms are used in ordinary conversation.

The crime of collusion implies that someone has participated in the execution of a crime not directly, but in a hidden way. In this sense, it is a crime in which you collaborate passively with the offender.

Collusion with evil

Can someone have a conduct apparently flawless from a legal point of view, but still acting as an indirect accomplice of an action immoral

If a employee fulfills an order from a superior and said order implies an undesirable and unfair action, the worker will find himself before a dilemma: comply with his obligation by complying with the order received or rebel and breach the order considering it unfair.

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