1. World problems
  2. Falsification of documents

Falsification of documents

  • Counterfeit documents
  • False bills of sale
  • False invoices
  • False product orders
  • Bogus financial transactions

Incidence

Emission of false invoices has been a continuing source of major scandal in France, notably affecting the process of funding political campaigns in the 1980s. Arms traffickers have been using the name of Bolivia in 1992 in order to purchase weapons costing up to $300 million for Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics in order to circumvent the United Nations arms embargo. Arms would for example be shipped from China to Bolivia to Yugoslavia on the basis of falsified orders purporting to come from the Bolivian Defence Ministry. Arms merchants in other Latin American countries have also been duped into shipping military equipment to a fake destination so that it can be diverted to destinations such as Yugoslavia.

Broader

Counterfeiting
Presentable

Aggravates

Aggravated by

Value

Fallacy
Yet to rate
Counterfeit
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Bogus
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong InstitutionsSustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Currency
  • Commerce » Finance
  • Commerce » Merchants
  • Industry » Products
  • Information » Documentation
  • Societal problems » Crime
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J4007
    DOCID
    12040070
    D7NID
    139912
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020