Enrichment is the act and result of enriching : increasing wealth (the abundance of something). Enrichment, with different characteristics, can have as its protagonist a person or some type of product.
For example: “The businessman's enrichment began in the 1970s, when he created a machine that revolutionized the footwear industry,” “I always try to consume enriched foods to strengthen my defenses,” “The deputy is being prosecuted for illicit enrichment .” since he cannot justify his fortune.”
The idea of enrichment is usually used with respect to material wealth (the accumulation of money , property and other goods). In this process, an individual becomes richer through business or business success . A woman who starts a productive enterprise whose turnover multiplies tenfold every year becomes richer: said enrichment is linked to the good progress of her project.
In the same way, we cannot ignore that this material enrichment can also occur thanks to fortune in games of chance. That is, thanks to participation in lotteries and raffles with similar characteristics.
When someone manages to enrich themselves at the expense of other people or through an illegal or unjust action, it is called illicit enrichment . In some countries , illicit enrichment is a criminal offense committed by a public official when he cannot justify how his assets increased while in office. This means that the investigated subject has to demonstrate that he acquired his assets lawfully: otherwise, the opposite is concluded. If a senator earns 100,000 pesos per month and from his sworn statement it appears that, in the last year, he spent an average of 300,000 pesos per month that allowed him to buy two cars and a house, he is likely to be found guilty of illicit enrichment.
The fortification of a food , on the other hand, is a process that modifies the characteristics of a product so that it provides more benefits to its consumer. Nutrients (vitamins, folic acid, iron) are added to enriched flour , to name one example.
In addition to everything indicated, we cannot ignore that there is also what is known as unjust enrichment. This is a general principle that is included in the Law and which establishes that it is prohibited for a person to unjustly enrich themselves to the detriment of another.
For this situation of unjust enrichment to occur, according to the Supreme Court of Spain, the circumstance must arise that the person who has been sued has enjoyed a financial advantage. Likewise, the plaintiff has had to become impoverished in a correlative manner to the previous one.
Other conditions that must occur for the aforementioned enrichment to take place are that it is not essential that the enriched person has done so in bad faith, that he has not been able to assert the aforementioned right in any other way or that there is no rule that exempts the which is the application of the established principle.
In addition to all of the above, we cannot ignore that unjust enrichment has another series of hallmarks such as its subsidiary nature, the need for an unjustified result or independent action, establishing the difference between what is the action of the unjust enrichment or compensatory action.