Shocking fraud: widow marries several times for pension!

Shocking fraud: widow marries several times for pension!

An extraordinary and previously hardly experienced fraud affair shakes Styria: a 73-year-old widow and her former husband, with whom she was married several times from 1982 to 2022, are suspected of serious commercial fraud. The traditional couple married a total of twelve times and divorced again, but without ever being separated. Your supposed goal? The acquisition of widow's pensions and the associated financial advantages, which was ultimately denied in May 2022, as the reported.

The judgment of the Supreme Court in March 2022 made the police investigation possible. It found that the repeated marriages and divorces were to be regarded as abusive, since no real separation took place. Witnesses confirmed that the couple had a "flagship marriage" and their environment knew nothing of the alleged divorces. The total damage to the pension insurance institution is impressive 326,000 euros. This extent of the fraud is without example in Styria, according to the police. The proportion of such offenses has almost become a matter of attitude over the past ten years, which is an alarming trend, reports Juracademy .

At the order of the Graz public prosecutor's office, criminal complaints have now been created against the couple. The procedure was classified as particularly perfidious, since the illegal activities were made possible by a sophisticated system of weddings and divorces that only served the purpose of pulling financial benefits from the legal services. The legal investigations have now been completed, but the shrilling of the alarm bells remains in society. The police, under the direction of the "Task Force Solbe", intensified the fight against social service fraud in Austria and found more than 4,650 alleged perpetrators last year.