Fraud – Overview

Fraud is a criminal offence and also gives rise to a claim under civil law.

Fraud usually involves a person deceiving another person in order to gain some financial or other advantage.

Both the organisations and the individual employees involved in the fraud may be liable.

This workshop focuses on criminal fraud.  The actual definition of a fraud offence depends on the law of the relevant country. 

In general terms, there tend to be three types of fraudulent acts on infrastructure projects:

• fraud by false representation
• fraud by failing to disclose information
• fraud by abuse of position.