Bringing the private into the public: reporting private sector fraud in Belgium
auteurs | Kenneth Hemmerechts |
Antoinette Verhage | |
Marc Cools | |
tijdschrift | GofS (ISSN: ) |
jaargang | 2011 |
aflevering | EU Criminal Justice, Financial & Economic Crime: new perspectives |
onderdeel | Artikelen |
publicatie datum | 4 mei 2011 |
taal | English |
pagina | 185 |
samenvatting | ‘Fraud’ is traditionally subdivided into horizontal fraud on the one hand, and vertical fraud on the other hand. Vertical fraud is the traditional domain of the public police and the other actors in the penal chain. Horizontal fraud, however, has principally been policed (and adjudicated) by private institutions for years. Recently in Belgium, this traditional division of tasks has been questioned, and several legal initiatives have been introduced to remedy the merely private approach of this phenomenon. In 2010, Keywords |