White Collar Crime
White Collar Crime was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation” Popularly it includes corruption in public offices, ponzi schemes, embezzlement, criminal conspiracy and breach of trust, foreign exchange violations, benami transactions, tax frauds, banking frauds, corporate frauds, public frauds, money laundering, narcotics, illegal international trade, and other economic offences. These crimes are not characterized as violent against individuals but rather these are the crimes against public in general involving deceit, concealment or violation of trust.
The prosecution in white collar crimes is administered by specialized enforcement agencies with wide powers of investigation including personal detention and arrest. Further these economic offences involve immaculate appreciation of voluminous documentary and financial evidence.
VGNC is well equipped with legal team having expertise in this specialized field of law comprising of legal and financial professionals to best serve in litigation of economic offences. We serve our clients not only in criminal trials, revision and appeals before the court of law but also in the course of rigorous investigation by the respective enforcement agencies.
Apart from defence, we further serve our clients in initiating criminal actions and prosecuting the offenders of any criminal offence. We also take up investigations and inquires for our clients to unearth any suspected wrongdoings in the organization or associates to mitigate the risk of any criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery and financial or accounting fraud.