During the first six months of 2009 the police arraigned 90 persons on charges of fraud.

Answering a parliamentary question by Adrian Vassallo (PL), Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici said 16 of the cases were concluded with sentences including prison terms, fines, suspended sentences and conditional discharge.

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