Abstract

Corporate fraud and legal non-compliance represent persistent risks to organizational integrity, financial performance, and stakeholder trust. Despite the widespread implementation of conventional control systems, many enterprises continue to face challenges in detecting fraudulent behavior and ensuring consistent compliance with regulatory standards. These challenges are often exacerbated by fragmented data environments, delayed reporting mechanisms, and vulnerabilities to human error or deliberate manipulation. In response to these limitations, blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative tool in corporate governance, offering a decentralized, transparent, and immutable platform for transaction recording and rule enforcement. This proposes a conceptual framework for deploying blockchain technology to strengthen corporate fraud detection and legal compliance systems. The framework integrates key blockchain features such as distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and automated audit trails with existing organizational processes to enhance data reliability, increase transparency, and support real-time compliance monitoring. It outlines critical components including the data integration layer, blockchain infrastructure selection (public vs. permissioned), a smart contract execution engine, and advanced analytics for anomaly detection. Furthermore, the framework addresses essential considerations such as interoperability with legacy systems, legal and regulatory alignment, and data privacy concerns. The proposed framework is intended to guide practitioners, auditors, compliance officers, and researchers in designing and implementing blockchain-based solutions that mitigate fraud risks and improve regulatory adherence across diverse industry sectors. By leveraging blockchain’s unique capabilities, organizations can move from reactive to proactive compliance management, thereby reducing the incidence of corporate misconduct and enhancing overall accountability. This conceptual exploration lays the foundation for future empirical research and pilot implementations, contributing to the growing discourse on the role of emerging technologies in corporate risk management and legal governance.