White-collar crime (Wikri) is the name for criminal offences, which exhibit economical purchases to differentiate it are from the social criminality to the abuse of social security benefits characterized, e.g. with the moonlighting. The number of crimes of the white-collar crime corresponds approx. to 1.5% to 2% (= approx. 80,000 to 100,000 cases) in the police Kriminalstatistik seized total criminal offences. It causes thereby a damage of approx. 50% (approx. 5 billion euro) for the total damage sum of all criminal offences.

Among the white-collar crime ranks among other things

• Share fraud
• Insolvenzdelikte
• Fraud
• Unfaithful one
• Produktpiraterie
• Bribery
• Advantage acceptance
• Computer criminality
• Insider trade
• Subsidy fraud
• Insolvency kidnapping
• Investment fraud (e.g. folder fraud)
• Money laundering
• Real estate fraud
• Tax evasion

Relevant sanction standards in Germany are among other things the tax code, the penal code, the money laundering law and the securities trading law.

Related links

• PwC study - white-collar crime 2005
• Euler Hermes study to the Download (pdf) - white-collar crime - the discrete risk
• - Definition of the topic white-collar crime with detailed statistics Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations and analyses founded white-collar crime
• White-collar crime - interface for Betrogene and investigators of the UV criminal investigation department Graz
• The gangsters with the white waistcoat article of star on-line of 08/2002 with a relatively good overview to the topic

See also:

• Financial scandal
• Social criminality

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