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So, in the u.k., it's just one of those "we keep this handy to hurt the uppity poors" laws?
Probably the opposite actually. Almost all white collar crime falls in under fraud. The crimes of the desperate, the poor or the wicked usually fall into a few, clear categories around harming others physically.
They got Robert Maxwell for it. He wasn't at all poor.