Fraud scandal in Leoben: couple hidden house and travel!

Fraud scandal in Leoben: couple hidden house and travel!

In the Leoben district, the police convicted a couple aged 70 and 72 of the severe fraud. According to reports from , the two have illegally received payments from the pension insurance institution and the office of the Styrian state government since 2022. The determination showed that the couple kept secret from regular stays abroad and the possession of a house in Croatia, which led to considerable damage of several thousand euros for the authorities.

The couple is suspected of violating social law through this failure to have violated this. The public prosecutor's office is now being involved in order to take legal action on the basis of the collected evidence. The incidents are part of an alarming development in Styria, where cases of social service fraud have risen by seven times in the past ten years. As the Kleinezeitung.at this is accompanied by the increasing success rate in the investigation of such cases.