Causing a person, through blackmail or violence, to do or not do a certain action, in order to unjustly gain wealth or any other benefit, for themselves or for third persons, is sentenced with imprisonment from two to eight years.
The same act, when committed by using or by threatening to use the gun, torture, inhuman and humiliating acts which have caused harm to the health, are sentenced by imprisonment of from seven to fifteen years.
When the crime as a consequence has caused the death of the person, it is sentenced by life imprisonment.
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