Prosecutors in several German regions have launched probes of companies offering free Covid-19 tests after news reports said that some were padding their numbers to claim more money from the government.
The German government has been supporting businesses and freelancers with financial aid during the coronavirus pandemic. But now investigators are probing several thousand fraud cases.
The founder and chief executive of scandal-hit Wirecard resigned on Friday after the German payments provider was hit with fresh fraud allegations that have left it struggling for survival.
A Russian-born German socialite who scammed her way to the top of New York High Society while accruing debts of a quarter of a million euros has been convicted of fraud.
The German government’s child support benefit has hit record levels, with more than 15 million claimants in 2018. However, concerns surrounding the number of foreign recipients – as well as allegations of fraud – has resulted in the establishment of a federal task force.
After an elderly woman in a Saxony-Anhalt town received a phone call from a person claiming to be her grandchild at the weekend, she promptly withdrew €20,000 from her bank and handed it over to the criminals. Hundreds of pensioners across Germany fall for this crime each year.
A criminal syndicate helped Nigerian immigrants get residency by providing Berlin authorities with fake papers. The immigration authority reportedly ignored internal warnings and kept approving the applications.
A German court has ordered French
bank Societe Generale to pay lender Helaba millions in compensation, the first conviction in a massive tax fraud investigation, AFP learned on Wednesday.
German police on Wednesday carried out raids on properties linked to two top Porsche executives and one
ex-employee of the luxury carmaker as part of a fraud probe linked to the diesel emissions cheating scandal, prosecutors said.
A 27-year-old man has been charged on two counts of fraud after making over a million euros by illegally manipulating a bottle deposit machine in his shop.
A district court in Bonn has slapped a month-long suspended sentence on a 62-year-old woman for fraud and forgery of documents, local newspaper Express reported on Friday.
Switzerland has charged a former employee of the country's largest bank UBS with allegedly selling German authorities the files of wealthy clients suspected of tax evasion, officials and media said Tuesday.
Germany's healthcare system is losing as much as €1 billion euros a year to scammers, some of whom are linked to the Russian mafia, according to a media report Sunday.
Several large German banks have had to exchange thousands of customers’ credit cards after details were stolen in a hacker attack at the end of last year.
Tax authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia may be able to take in at least €600 million after buying digital files relating to tax avoidance between 2006 and 2011, media reported on Monday.
Three of Germany's biggest companies are facing a fraud investigation related to their work at Berlin's troubled new airport project, already five years behind schedule, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Searches of offices belonging to Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, were connected with a wider probe into suspected tax evasion, Frankfurt prosecutors said on Thursday.
A German art dealer went on trial Tuesday accused of defrauding one of the country's richest families of tens of
millions in the sales of paintings and vintage cars.
