1st Edition

Fraud and Carbon Markets The Carbon Connection

By Marius-Christian Frunza Copyright 2013
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and analyses the missing trader fraud (VAT fraud) on European carbon allowances markets with a... Read more

1. Introduction to the Carbon Markets: Why Emissions are Important?  2. Criminal Organisations and Capital Markets: A Brief Review  3. The Value Added Tax and the VAT fraud  4. Carbon: An Easy Target for an Experienced “Manager”  5. Anatomy of the Crime of the Century  6. Money Laundry: Making White Euros with Green Mechanism on a Grey Investment  7. Other Collateral Damages : A Disaster Never Comes Alone  8. Statistic Forensic: Let the Numbers Speak  9. Who is Who in the “Carbon” World    10. VAT Fraud and Moral Hazard  11. The New Age of Organised Crime

Biography

Marius-Christian Frunza is an Associate Professor at Dauphine and Sorbonne University, France, and an environmental markets advisor with Schwarzthal Kapital. 

"Marius-Christian Frunza's book ... provides a wealth of information into the VAT scandal, or carousel fraud, that hit the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) between 2008 and 2011."Carbon Trading Magazine