El delito de captación masiva y habitual de dineros en el ordenamiento penal colombiano (Art. 316 del Código penal)

This article has the aim to identify, starting from the respect of the principle of harm ­ nulla lex poenalis sine iniuria­, which is the legal interest protected by the article 316 of the Colombian Penal Code, which punishes the collection of public funds on a large scale or on a regular basis without authorization. The article concluded that none of the traditional thesis arrive to a successful outcome about what is the protected legal interest by the article 316 of the Penal Code, for that reason it offers a new interpretation that pretends to respect the principle of harm.