The crime of financial fraud from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence and Saudi law "analytical study"

Abstract

This study addresses a financial crime, which has spread widely in society, until it becomes a criminal phenomenon. This offence was studied in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence and Saudi law.. In this study, the researcher adopted the Analytical Inductive Curriculum, Which is based on extrapolation, analysis of sharia texts related to study,and analysis of texts from the so-called Act (Combating the Crime of Financial Fraud and Breach of Trust), the study found that financial fraud is the undue seizure of other people's money by fraudulent methods, the fraudster is punishable by an original penalty and a supplementary penalty, but there are cases in which the penalty is aggravated, other cases in which punishment is exempted. The study demonstrated how rights  can be restored to victims of financial fraud by following two paths, one on the rights path and the other on a penal path.

Key words: Crime, Fraud, Money, Saudi regime.