Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , Pages 463-481
1 قسم القانون / كلية القانون / جامعة السليمانية
The contemporary frauds are committed on public and private properties and its seriousness is
increased in the light of significant advancement in communications land technologies means.
Therefore fraud crimes have become a global trend resulting in more serious and damaging
consequences. The actions of fraud perpetrators are extended to more than one country and they have
become organized criminal gangs. These crimes also as a global trend have special features
threatening individuals, states, and individual and international economic activities. From this
prospective, the deterrence of such crimes require the existence of direct and clear legal provisions
sentencing fraud perpetrators or legislating a specific law to sentence and deter them by establishing
international strategy to ensure police agency cooperation around the world. Moreover, it needs to
involve international organizations and institutions that work on crime prevention and crime
deterrence.