Around 42 percent of reported fraud cases were committed by a single perpetrator in 2020 and 2021. The second most likely number of perpetrators were three or more people with 38% of occupational fraud cases.
Distribution of worldwide occupational fraud cases in 2020 and 2021, by number of perpetrators
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