The present Romanian economic situation, as well as the effort of finding solution to the multitude of situations occurring in the activities of the companies regulated according to Law no. 31/1990 have led, in the recent years, to a major change in the legislation of the main legal fields. As such, an important number of economic criminal dispositions previously regulated in the special laws suffered changes and were transferred in the regulations contained by a new Criminal Code, in force since February 15, 2014. The current paper aims to present the offence of fraudulent bankruptcy committed through the alienation of the insolvent debtor’s goods in the detriment of its creditors. The way the paper is divided takes into concern the two actions that can be brought in front of justice according to criminal procedural law: the criminal action into court and the possibility of joining a civil action into court in the same criminal trial, from a historical perspective to the legislation to date.