Financial crime
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Financial crime is crime committed against property, involving the unlawful conversion of the ownership of property (belonging to one person) to one's own personal use and benefit. Financial crimes may involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, medical fraud, corporate fraud, securities fraud (including insider trading), bank fraud, insurance fraud, market manipulation, payment (point of sale) fraud, health care fraud); theft; scams or confidence tricks; tax evasion; bribery; sedition; embezzlement; identity theft; money laundering; and forgery and counterfeiting, including the production of Counterfeit money and consumer goods.
Financial crimes may involve additional criminal acts, such as computer crime and elder abuse, even violent crimes such as robbery, armed robbery or murder. Financial crimes may be carried out by individuals, corporations, or by organized crime groups. Victims may include individuals, corporations, governments, and entire economies.
Law enforcement agencies
There are law enforcement agencies whose main enforcement activities focus on criminal violations of their country's tax code and related financial crimes, such as money laundering, currency violations, tax-related identity theft fraud, and terrorist financing. Some of these law enforcement agencies are:
- Australia - Australian Taxation Office
- Canada - Canada Revenue Agency
- Mexico - Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera
- Netherlands - Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst
- Nigeria - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
- United Kingdom - Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs
- United States of America - Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation
See also
- Black market
- Credit card fraud
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
- Financing of terrorism
- Fraud
- Greenmail
- Grey market
- Mafia
- Money laundering
- Organized crime
- Securities fraud
- Skimming (casinos)
- Skimming (fraud)
- Structuring (smurfing)
- Tax haven
- White-collar crime
- World Bank residual model
- Wood laundering