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Concealment and Receiving Stolen Goods constitute crimes against the administration of justice, which have evolved from a form of criminal participation to autonomous offenses. Their criminal intervention is justified by the need to protect the normal functioning of the judicial system and because, as multi-offense crimes of a supra-individual nature, they indirectly affect legally protected interests as a result of property and economic crime. Studying these crimes is essential because, through doctrinal analysis and the dogmatic method of crime, it is possible to understand their basic presuppositions and demonstrate their autonomy from the Perspective of Panamanian criminal law and comparative law. Likewise, their study demonstrates that these crimes have a different nature from the principal crimes committed by the perpetrators, accomplices, and instigators, because the actions are post-executive and entirely different from the prior crime. In this sense, the criminal offenses of concealment and receiving stolen goods are established after the principal crime has been committed, and they involve two behaviors of personal aiding and abetting or aiding and abetting. This allows the administration of justice to correctly apply criminal law, because both criminal acts hinder the administration of justice.
