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law. 40 Apart from that, a relevant number of countries also stated that subsidy
fraud, fraud involving welfare payments, computer fraud and breaching of
trust/embezzlement were concepts not separately identifiable in criminal law.
5. Conclusions
Fraud was a new offence to be included in the questionnaire. As the results on
definitions and data availability show, the definition proved to be useful and was
met by most countries. Data availability was excellent. The results of the subsidiary
questionnaire also helped to show that the suggested definition reflects the
legal and statistical situation in most countries as good as possible. Fraud will
therefore definitely be covered in future editions of the ESB, too. The definition
will be kept.
40 Also see above, F.2.