forgery
Forfalskning er en strafbar handling, hvor et dokument eller en genstand skabes, ændres eller bruges, så det fremstår som ægte, selv om det ikke er det. Den centrale bestemmelse i dansk ret er straffelovens § 171 om dokumentfalsk.
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The Little Nicolás Case — Spanish fraud and impersonation scandal
A Spanish fraud case in which Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias posed as a government insider, deceiving institutions and businesses across Madrid from 2014 until his arrest and conviction.
The Mark Hofmann Case — Forger Turned Salt Lake City Bomber
The Mark Hofmann case is a 1985 American double murder in Salt Lake City, in which rare-document forger Mark Hofmann killed two people with homemade bombs to cover up a massive forgery scheme.
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