Every third Polish company is a victim of economic crime
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According to PwC's Global Economic Crime Survey 2016, more than 1/3 (36 percent) of companies surveyed in Poland, confirmed they had been victims of fraud in the last 24 months. About 65 percent of the offenses were asset robbery, and 32 percent were cybercrime.
"There is a favorable downward trend in Poland in comparison to the previous survey. On the one hand, this may indicate that more and more companies are implementing system solutions for monitoring risk and fraud detection. On the other hand, one must not forget that the issue of fraud and economic crime is still troublesome and it reluctantly moves into the business world," - said the investigative services team manager Angelika Cakes-Zyska.
PwC says that 22 percent of companies lost between PLN 400,000 and PLN 4 million. Another 22 percent reported losses of more than PLN 4 million.
The perpetrators of abuse are usually people outside the company (57 percent). However, other fraudsters are people working in company for 3-5 years and aged 31-40 on average.
