Corporate structure – Business areas
ECRA corporate culture – Part of the forensic task.
The corporate culture is reflected in an ethically based approach to managing tasks and cooperative leadership. It contributes decisively to the corporate success of ECRA-GmbH.
We convince clients all over the world with high quality services and the right approaches, even for complex tasks.
Why? Because we have people with different ways of thinking and proven special expertise working successfully together as a team.
The concept
Our range of services is specialized in supporting and advising clients in connection with the prevention of white-collar crime.
In doing so, we want to be more goal-oriented, more creative and faster than possible competitors.
We focus on the economic damage and the prevention of future criminal acts.
Our goal is to verify or falsify suspicions, to clarify facts, to identify perpetrators and to quantify any damage that may have been caused.
Development in the various areas of white-collar crime
| Crime area | Cases 2022 (2021) |
Trend | Suspects 2022 (2021) |
Trend | Damage in million euros Mio. Euro 2022 (2021) |
Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White-collar crime total |
73.114 (51.260) |
26.770 (28.989) |
2.083 (2.441) |
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| White-collar crime for fraud |
53.874 (33.454) |
11.797 (16.262) |
887 (1.121) |
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| Insolvency crime | 6.388 (6.892) |
6.069 (6.682) |
859 (973) |
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| Investment and financing crimes |
3.412 (4.671) |
1.166 (1.191) |
244 (590) |
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| Competition crimes | 1.019 (1.068) |
809 (1.049) |
2,8 (16) |
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| Employment offenses | 3.989 (4.677) |
2.628 (2.776) |
53,4 (52,8) |
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| Fraud/Embezzlement in connection with capital investments |
3.169 (4.255) |
806 (809) |
195 (585) |
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| Billing fraud in health care |
2.744 (11.328) |
1.708 (1.760) |
72,6 (58) |
Source: Bundeskriminalamt, Wirtschaftskriminalität | Bundeslagebild 2022
Significant increases in sub-areas of white-collar crime were recorded in particular for fraud (+61.9%), fraud/embezzlement in connection with capital investments (+36.6%), and investment and financing offenses (+30.1%). In contrast, the number of cases involving employment (-10.2%) and insolvency offenses (-10.0%) decreased.