The differences between the crime of embezzlement of public funds, misappropriation and fraud are not always clear, particularly when the fraudulent transaction involves new technology, which can lead to serious distortions at the heart of the principle of legality. In this context, the objective of the present study is to clarify points of overlap between the CP/1973 and the current, 1995 text on the said criminal activities when information technology has been used in carrying out illegal activities. In turn, this can be extended to analysis of the ability of legal codes to categorise cases of digital fraud, with particular reference to the use of asymmetric signatures and encoding.
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