Criminal offences against property

Regulation in the Criminal Code 

Criminal offences against property are covered in the Criminal Code in its Special Part, specifically in Chapter V. This chapter is not further divided into additional parts, as is the case with other groups of criminal offences.

Individual crimes

The Criminal Code regulates the following criminal offences within the aforementioned group:

Theft (Section 205)

Embezzlement (Section 206)

Unauthorized use of property (Section 207)

Unauthorized interference with the right to a house, apartment, or non-residential space (Section 208)

Fraud (Section 209)

Insurance fraud (Section 210)

Credit fraud (Section 211)

Subsidy fraud (Section 212)

Conducting unfair gambling and betting (Section 213)

(repealed) (Section 214)

(repealed) (Section 215)

Money laundering (Section 216)

Special provision on sentencing (Section 216a)

Negligent money laundering (Section 217)

General provision (Section 217a)

Usury (Section 218)

Concealment of a thing (Section 219)

Breach of fiduciary duty (Section 220)

Negligent breach of fiduciary duty (Section 221)

Prejudice of a creditor (Section 222)

Preferential treatment of a creditor (Section 223)

Causing insolvency (Section 224)

Breach of duty in insolvency proceedings (Section 225)

Fraudulent practices in insolvency proceedings (Section 226)

Failure to make a truthful declaration of assets (Section 227)

Damage to property (Section 228)

Abuse of ownership (Section 229)

Unauthorized access to a computer system and unauthorized interference with a computer system or data storage medium (Section 230)

Acquisition and retention of access devices and passwords for a computer system and other such data (Section 231)

Negligent unauthorized access to a computer system or data storage medium (Section 232)

Typical criminal offences against property