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This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster. Extensively researched, the study uses interviews with and documentation from businesspeople, credit controllers, lawyers, judges, police, fraud investigators as well as fraudsters themselves. It also makes use of extensive documentary material from contemporary and historical police and court records. Originally published in the 1980s, the revised edition of this seminal work provides a substantial new introduction written by the author to highlight the changing and unchanging relevance of the findings for a contemporary audience, and the ways in which fraud opportunities and the organization of frauds have modified in the intervening years.
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Index
419 frauds xxxviii
accommodation addresses xxxix, 35
accommodation cheques 41–3
accounts, validation of 330–32
acquisition fraud xl
acquittals 278
actus rea 198
advance fee frauds xxxviii
Advisory Council on the Penal System 308–14
air travel xxxi
AML see money laundering
Angry Brigade trial 209
anti-money laundering (AML) see money laundering
appeals 223–8, 275
arbitrage li–lii
aristocrats 102
armed robbery 4
Arnstein 23–4
arrest 112–13
avoidance 46–53, 57
arson 6, 50–52
Australia 21
backers 6, 285–6, 298, 320
bail 202
Bail Act 1976 202
bande noire 12–13
Bankers’ Books (Evidence) Act 1879 266–7
bankruptcy
creditors 145
denationalisation 293
long-firm frauds 15
Middle Ages xxxi
offences 55
professionals lxiii
stigma lxii–lxiv
supervision of 188–9
Bankruptcy Act 1542 145
Bankruptcy Act 1543 13
Bankruptcy Act 1719 145
Bankruptcy Act 1914 146, 188, 200, 321
Bankruptcy Act 1926 188
bankruptcy examinations 145–6, 187–9
bankruptcy fraud see long-firm frauds
Bankruptcy Restriction Orders (BRO) lx–lxii
banks 41–3, 130
behaviour
conventional 85
lawful 85
verbalization 87
beneficial ownership xxx
benefit fraud lxxi
bills of exchang...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Table of Statutes Cited
- Table of Cases Cited
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- An Introduction and Postscript to the Second Edition of The Phantom Capitalists
- I Introduction
- II History of Long-Firm Fraud in England until the Second World War
- III Craft of the Long-Firm Fraudster
- IV Social and Criminal Organisation of Long-Firm Fraud
- V Motivations and Criminal Careers of Long Long-Firm Fraudsters
- VI Informal Control of Long-Firm Fraud
- VII Long-Firm Fraud and the Criminal Law
- VIII Policing of Long-Frim Fraud
- IX Prosecution and Trial of Long-Firm Fraudsters
- X Sentencing of Long-Firm Fraudsters
- XI Towards a Theory of Long-Firm Fraud
- XII Control of Long-Firm Fraud: Some Issues for the Future
- Appendices
- References
- Index
- About the Author