The ius puniendi ar sanctioning power of the State become manifest through different sanctioning administrative procedures, in Colombia although is a unitary State, due to the division and the specialty of work, the powers and responsibilities are assigned by the Political Constitution to a special units of the Central Administration for the fulfillment of its functions and the execution of its eminently public purposes. Thus, the penal and administrative sanctioning power coexists; both are part of a general ius puniendi of the State, which is unique and subdivided into these two manifestations that are limited by the principies of Criminal Law. The principles of Criminal Law are applied in a nuanced way in administrative sanctions and in particular in the Exchange Sanction Regime of competence of the DIAN. Therefore, to carry out the study and analysis of the administrative sanctioning principies applied in the Foreign Exchange Sanctions provided in Decree Law 2245 of 2011, it is necessary to assess and determine the legal good protected in each of the infractions, the facts constituting the infraction and material wrongfulness as the fundamentals of Criminal Law and legitimizing elements of the State's punitive faculty, even from the exchange administrative perspective. In order to determine the scope of the principies applied to the exchange administrative infractions of competence of the DIAN.