Wolfgang Stoltzenberg's business Castor Holdings displayed the illusion of being a very successful company and the large banks of the world continued to lend to Stoltzenberg despite the fact that in reality the business had not made a profit in years. Castor Holdings was a parent company to York-Hannover that was run by Kersten Von Wersebe. Eventually when the banks began to foreclose and call back their loans Stoltzenberg had to file for bankruptcy. It is believed by independent auditors that Wolfgang may have siphoned off as much as 200 million pounds and deposited it over a large number of bank accounts throughout the world. Still lives in Belgravia and as yet no real money has been found or traced to him.

Colombian cartels use corporate criminals in Europe to launder their drug money.

The intention of this paper is to highlight the different levels of computer crime in Europe and to examine the various motives involved. One interesting factor, from my point of view, is how the 'traditional' organised economic crime has adapted to the worldwide potential of globalisation. Although globalis

According to official statistics, data protection offences are only of limited importance today. The cases that became known show different degrees of endangerment: The misuse of "STASI" documents, i.e. the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the former GDR, or the possible blackmailing of AIDS-infected patients prove that in the information society of the 20th century, data protection has become a central matter of concern. The storing of information about defaulting debtors by credit investigation agencies or the transmission of data within criminal prosecution authorities also show, however, that the ascertainment of infringements of privacy in numerous cases depends on a difficult assessment and evaluation of conflicting principles: The underlying discussion on values does not only have to deal with the protection of privacy, but also with the freedom of information, which is the driving force of the cultural, economic and political development of an "open society".

Computers used for criminal activities of a financial nature are merely a means to an end. By this I mean that to this type of criminal the computer is just a tool with which to illegally access funds which otherwise would be completely unavailable. This apparently obvious statement becomes relevant when compared with the informational motivated computer criminal whose interest is primarily focussed upon the computer and its interaction with other computers. A large percentage of financial computer crime takes place within the boundaries of a legal occupation. Green (1990: 13) defines as occupational crime 'any act punishable by law which is committed through opportunity created in the course of an occupation that is legal'. He specifies that the term legal occupation is necessary because without it the term 'occupational crime' could conceivably include all crimes.

To begin this chapter I would first like to set the scene with a brief look at the modern economy and the potential for fraud and embezzlement in the global market place.

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