Social fraud in Tyrol: 60-year-old collects over 100,000 euros!

Social fraud in Tyrol: 60-year-old collects over 100,000 euros!

Tiroler Unterland, Österreich - A huge social fraud comes to light! A 60-year-old man from Bosnia and Herzegovina is said to have captured over 100,000 euros. Since 2011 he has been wrong to support his 62-year-old sister, who is really alive abroad, in Tyrol. For this supposedly impaired sister, he registered a "sham residence" and applied for care allowance and orphan's board. Nobody noticed that - until now!

like krone.at reports, the fraud is undetected for years. The man always brought his sister only for short visits to Austria to do the necessary authorities, including the extension of residence titles and medical examinations. The fraudster was confessed during the police survey and was finally reported for severe commercial social welfare fraud. The investigators noticed that the pension insurance institution has been shamelessly exploited by its stitch since 2011, which led to a six -digit damage damage.

The detection of the fraud

Thanks to the special police unit for social service fraud, the case came to light that made the authorities listen to. The man managed to deceive the responsible bodies over a period of 14 years, and all of this in the Tyrolean lowlands. The responsible public prosecutor in Innsbruck has already started the investigation to pursue the massive fraud. The recovery of the wrongly obtained funds will now be a central topic in the ongoing investigations, while the authorities do everything possible to prevent such fraud.