The police searched residential and commercial properties in Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and Vienna on suspicion of multi-million fraud with parking fees against a car-sharing provider.
The company’s two Berlin-based directors are being investigated for gang crime, fraud and document violations, as Berlin police and prosecutors announced on Wednesday.
Data manipulated
Since 2019, public order and fines agencies have discovered major discrepancies in telemetry data. These are used to automatically determine the location of the vehicles using GPS, which can then be used to calculate parking rates. The authorities suspect that significant parking charges could have been avoided by manipulating this data. According to estimates, the state of Berlin alone could lose 25 to 30 million euros in parking fees since 2019.
Data carrier secured
According to the information, the police searched the living quarters of the two suspects in Berlin and the headquarters of the car-sharing provider. In Düsseldorf, the Siegen-Wittgenstein district and Vienna, houses were searched at companies that have business contact with the car-sharing company. Data carriers and business documents were seized.
Source: Krone
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