Fraud and Special Fraud Offences

I The crime of fraud and special kinds of fraud ABSTRACT When choosing a subject matter for my diploma thesis I focused on what might be useful even from the point of view of my future practice. In this context, fraud of all different kinds is something we can meet with on daily basis and that is the reason why I decided to study in detail and treat this particular phenomenon. The entire thesis has been divided by me into six chapters with each of them splitting further into sub-chapters. I wished to treat the subject matter in most comprehensive way and so the thesis contains both historical and descriptive aspects as well as methodological ones, with an emphasis on the use and interpretation applied by courts and specific institutions. Chapter One stands for an introduction into the subject matter seen from a historical perspective. The first sub-chapter summarizes re-codification works of penal law from 1989 up to the present time while the subsequent sub-chapters deal with the very term of criminal offence of fraud in respect of its evolution and major amendments. The essence of Chapter Two consists of an analysis of legal attributes of the criminal offence of fraud pursuant to Art. 209, Penal Code (Art. 250, former Penal Code). The individual sub-chapters present general characteristics, definition of..