CONCURRENCE OF THE CRIME OF FORGERY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH RELATED CRIMINAL ACTS

Abstract

The object of protection to the criminal offenses of falsifying documents is the legal traffic. The legal traffic should be understood as the circulation of documents which prove the existence or non-existence of certain relationships between people, i.e. the existence of the rights and obligations arising from such relations, or which establish and define certain personal, statutory and other facts in these relations. The documents serve as a source of information and evidence, and therefore must be true so that the legal traffic can take place without suspicion and mistrust. The veracity of documents form the basis of trust in the legal traffic. Therefore jeopardizing that trust - creating a false or modified real documents, obtaining such documents with the intent to use as genuine, or using false or altered real documents - constitute the criminal offense of falsifying documents, in basic, qualified and specific forms of this criminal offense when it comes to the material forgery.

Legal traffic is the object of protection with intellectual forgery because the official documents, books or papers, evidence and sources of information about the existence or nonexistence of many conditions, rights and obligations of a large number of subjects, which are of particular importance for the legal and social relations in constant traffic. Confidence in their veracity and accuracy is the condition of security in the performance of this traffic.