Crime > Frauds: Countries Compared

Author: Ian Graham, Staff Editor

Former WorldCom chairman Bernard Ebbers was convicted on March 15 of committing a US$11-billion fraud that led to the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Found guilty of securities fraud, making false filings and conspiracy, Ebbers faces up to 85 years in prison.

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, fraud costs U.S. organizations more than US$400 billion each year.

The median loss caused by men, who commit 75 percent of the offenses, is US$185,000; the median loss caused by women is US$48,000. Losses caused by managers are four times bigger than those caused by employees. The median losses caused by executives are 16 times the size of those caused by employees.

An American corporate fraud task force, which pools resources from the Justice Department, the FBI, the SEC and other agencies, has secured more than 500 convictions on about 900 cases filed since its formation three years ago.

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DEFINITION: Total recorded frauds. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Germany	926,903	2002
2	United States	371,800	2002
3	United Kingdom	358,186	2002
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	284,931	2002
4	France	142,583	2002
5	South Korea	136,206	2002
6	Poland	94,817	2002
7	Canada	91,235	2002
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	84,931.79	2002
8	Russia	81,470	2002
	Eurozone average (profile)	69,074.83	2002
	NATO countries average (profile)	68,446.44	2002
	European Union average (profile)	64,974.71	2002
9	Mexico	61,970	2002
10	South Africa	56,232	2002
11	Italy	54,328	2002
12	Japan	49,482	2002
	Europe average (profile)	47,685.34	2002
13	India	41,403	2002
14	Sweden	36,714	2002
15	Austria	31,326	2002
16	Czech Republic	25,423	2002
17	Hungary	25,281	2002
18	Netherlands	24,563	2002
19	New Zealand	21,807	2002
20	Finland	15,605	2002
21	Romania	15,466	2002
22	Spain	15,462	2002
23	Ukraine	14,634	2002
24	Norway	12,295	2002
25	Venezuela	11,741	2002
26	Turkey	10,696	2002
27	Switzerland	10,327	2002
28	Belgium	9,627	2002
29	Denmark	7,533	2002
30	Slovakia	7,492	2002
31	Bulgaria	6,902	2002
32	Thailand	6,831	2002
33	Peru	5,557	2002
34	Slovenia	5,336	2002
35	Hong Kong	5,090	2002
36	Zimbabwe	5,013	2002
37	Portugal	4,882	2002
38	Chile	4,751	2002
39	Morocco	3,605	2002
40	Croatia	3,586	2002
41	Bolivia	2,481	2002
42	Tunisia	2,304	2002
43	Belarus	2,226	2002
44	Lithuania	2,037	2002
45	Malaysia	2,000	2002
46	Costa Rica	1,849	2002
47	Estonia	1,802	2002
48	Burma	1,560	2002
49	Ireland	1,529	2002
50	Colombia	1,229	2002
51	Uruguay	1,209	2002
52	Kyrgyzstan	1,156	2002
53	Jamaica	1,149	2002
54	Azerbaijan	1,114	2002
55	Moldova	1,087	2002
56	Mauritius	914	2002
57	El Salvador	912	2002
58	Armenia	776	2002
59	Saudi Arabia	741	2002
60	Yemen	658	2002
61	Maldives	590	2002
62	Malta	574	2002
63	Latvia	573	2002
64	Republic of Macedonia	477	2002
65	Iceland	446	2002
66	Papua New Guinea	417	2002
67	Greece	391	2002
68	Zambia	349	2002
69	Panama	261	2002
70	Georgia	221	2002
71	Cyprus	200	2002
72	Oman	194	2002
73	Luxembourg	171	2002
74	Kuwait	140	2002
75	Seychelles	130	2002
76	Nepal	74	2002
77	Qatar	72	2002
78	Albania	38	2002
79	Dominica	32	2002

Citation

"Countries Compared by Crime > Frauds. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention). Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. Retrieved from http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Frauds

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