The Crime of Forgery

Abstract

Forgery is not an oft‐discussed subject. Detailed discussion of forgery by banks and other financial institutions all over the world is a taboo, ‘for fear of sowing the seeds of fraudulent schemes in other ingenious heads’. This is obvious. For once a loophole is identified and discussed, it has to be permanently plugged and sealed, which the bankers perhaps find an arduous task as it costs money and leads to the necessity of cumbersome and time‐consuming procedures being adopted. This paper will analyse the offence of forgery, the definition and the modus operandi of forgery and a sample of forgery cases in the UK and the USA.

Citation

Hemraj, M.B. (2002), "The Crime of Forgery", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 355-359. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026035