Media report
Gang -based fraud in the case of citizens’ money stops
According to a report, the gangy fraud in the civil allowance remains at a continued high level. The proceedings had almost doubled in the previous year.
According to a media report, the Federal Employment Agency reports a persistently high number of suspected cases of gang -based fraud in the civil allowance. According to data from the Nuremberg authority, 293 proceedings were re -introduced, according to data from the Nuremberg authority. In 151 cases, criminal complaint has already been filed, according to the preliminary report of the newspaper. In this way, the number of internal procedures in the first eight months lies at a similar high level as in the previous year: in 2024 there were 421 suspected fraud cases with 209 criminal charges. This is almost twice as many as 2023 when 229 procedures were initiated.
Citizens’ money: fraud stitch with EU citizens
The Federal Employment Agency said that the number of unreported cases should be significantly higher. In the case of gang abuse, EU citizens-often from Eastern Europe-would be “lured to Germany from criminal gangs,” said a spokesman for the “Augsburg Allgemeine” employment agency, according to the preliminary report.
However, the perpetrators are not always the specific people. “The money is then largely skimmed off by the backers.” The perpetrators mostly attracted people to Germany with false promises. People were housed in cheap apartments, registered a minor or fictitious employment relationship and then applied for increasing social benefits.
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Source: Stern
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