The national criminal code, enacted by PL 11-72 and signed on 25 January 2001, replacing the earlier National Criminal Code. Chapter 5 covers crimes against public administration (falsification offences are in §§ 522-530) and Chapter 6, crimes against property and persons, covers theft (§ 602) with theft by deception, by extortion and by failure to make required disposition of funds defined in § 601(9)-(11). Chapter 9 deals with money laundering. No separate fraud or embezzlement offence is titled as such.
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