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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. <p>According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, fraud costs U.S. organizations more than US$400 billion each year. <p>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. <p>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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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH |
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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 |
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Interesting observations about Crime > Frauds
- Germany ranked first for frauds amongst Europe in 2002.
- United Kingdom ranked second for frauds amongst European Union in 2002.
- United States ranked second for frauds amongst High income OECD countries in 2002.
- Japan ranked last for frauds amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2002.
- France ranked second for frauds amongst Eurozone in 2002.
- Poland ranked first for frauds amongst Emerging markets in 2002.
- Canada ranked #5 for frauds amongst NATO countries in 2002.
- Russia ranked first for frauds amongst Former Soviet republics in 2002.
- All of the top 2 countries by frauds are Christian.
- Turkey ranked third last for frauds amongst Non-religious countries in 2002.
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Posted on 16 Mar 2005
Ian Graham, Staff Editor