LEGAL NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF FRAUD

Abstract

In the structure of property crimes fraud has been gaining weight, and the heterogeneous character of this crime has
become apparent lately. The study of the legal nature of fraud makes it possible to distinguish the structure of fraudulent
crime as the most serious crimes perpetrated in the finance and credit system, the criminalization of which is evident. The
growth of fraud and persistent nonpayment of arrears on bank loans creates a serious economic and legal problem for
banking system on the whole. So far criminology has not developed any unitary classification of crimes, including
fraudulent crimes. Substantiating the necessity of diversification of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of
Belarus the author, on the basis of relevant criminological characteristics, studies fraud in commodity and credit sphere as
a separate type of fraud. The practical significance of criminological study of this type of fraud consists of the specific
organizational development and applied prevention measures.

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