Journal title DE IUSTITIA ET IURE
Author/s Marco Gambardella
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 37-57 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ius2025oa21547
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The author analyses the crime of improper bankruptcy as a corporate offence (Articles 223(2)(1) of the Bankruptcy Law and 329(2)(a) of the Italian Civil Code). This is a transitional concept between insolvency law and corporate criminal law. With this autonomous criminal offence, the legislator has equated, in terms of penalties, the commission of a series of corporate criminal offences followed by bankruptcy or judicial liquidation of the company with fraudulent bankruptcy.
The criminal offence was reformulated by Legislative Decree No. 61 of 2002, through which the legislator established a causal link between the corporate offences referred to in the case in question and the company's financial collapse. The previous offence of danger was therefore transformed into a crime with damage, in which the financial collapse represents the naturalistic event.
The new code on corporate crisis and insolvency has fully confirmed the original configuration, replacing only the reference to bankruptcy proceedings with that relating to judicial liquidation.
Marco Gambardella, La bancarotta impropria da reato societario: dalla legge fallimentare al codice della crisi d’impresa in "DE IUSTITIA ET IURE" 2/2025, pp 37-57, DOI: 10.3280/ius2025oa21547