Once again in Tyrol, the police’s special unit for social service fraud was able to uncover a blatant case. A couple from the Kufstein area would have been wrongly receiving emergency aid and sick leave for years and thus have stolen tens of thousands of euros. In the course of the investigation, the officials also came across a questionable letterbox company.
Scammed by the state for years, and no one noticed – until now! In the course of extensive investigations, the couple from the Kufstein region became the target of the Social Services Fraud Task Force. “The married couple In the end, the years of unlawful receipt of emergency aid and sick leave to the detriment of the Tyrolean Labor Market Service and the Austrian Health Insurance Fund amounting to a five-figure euro sum can be proven,” the researchers say.
According to this, the husband, who works full-time at a company in Innsbruck, would have founded a letterbox company in Germany in 2018. „Gleichzeitig betrieb er im Raum Kufstein ein The customer orders mediated by the suspect, which were long-term orders from tourism companies, were fulfilled almost exclusively by his wife, who was continuously receiving emergency or unemployment benefits,” the investigators continue.
The accused had always pretended “that she was unemployed in the labor market or that she could not work” to the authorities or the paying agencies. Entsprechende Anzeigen follow.
Source: Krone
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