An insurance salesman who sawed off his own finger and thumb to claim insurance was given a suspended sentence by a court in northern Germany on Friday.
Germany’s most famous castle is at the centre of a court case with two former employees of Schloss Neuschwanstein standing trial on Tuesday for fraud.
German businesses have reported one of the highest levels of corruption in the world, with one in four managers saying they had experienced a significant case of fraud in the last two years.
A former state finance minister was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday, having been found guilty of embezzling money in the scandal around the failed sale of the NĂĽrburgring Formula One race track.
UPDATE: A major producer of ethically certifified meat has admitted to defrauding thousands of customers for years by passing off conventional chicken as free range. But the brand said it took swift action to deal with the case.
Data thieves targeting customers at cash point machines caused €8 million worth of damage in the first six months of this year, according to figures out on Wednesday.
A German dentist who was so desperate for cash that he cut off his own finger for the insurance money has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to a year in prison to be served on parole. The man said he was the victim of an attack.
A former German hedge fund manager suspected of defrauding US investors of $ 200 million, was arrested in Italy on Friday following a tip from an FBI agent, <i>Die Welt</i> newspaper reported over the weekend.
A German teacher who went into early retirement on a state pension after he was classified as too sick to work was found to be earning €9,900 a month in Switzerland. A court this week handed him a €20,000 fine for pension fraud.
A self-confessed fan of the Leonardo DiCaprio film "Catch Me If You Can" appeared in court on Wednesday, accused of cooking up bizarre lies to steal a total of €375,000 from eight women.
German-born Dietmar Machold from Bremen, one of the world's foremost dealers in rare and expensive violins until his firm went bankrupt in 2010, has been sentenced in Austria to six years in jail for fraud.
The former treasurer of Brandenburg's Greens has admitted stealing well over €250,000 from the party and spending it on love affairs he had with two prostitutes.
German prosecutors and customs officials believe they have uncovered one of the largest cases of fraud among the country’s gynaecologists involving the illegal sale of Depocon, an unapproved contraceptive.
One area of finance which seems to be posting huge growth in Germany despite the economic crisis is money laundering, reports of which increased by around 17 percent during 2011, new figures show.
Faced with improved ATM security, German credit card fraudsters have started manipulating train ticket machines to steal PIN numbers and bank details, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) revealed this week.
A German accused of embezzling around €500 million by telling investors he had a secret stock market prediction computer programme, was arraigned in Frankfurt at the weekend after being arrested in the US.
A German man sought in Europe for alleged participation in a fraudulent €81 million ($100 million) pyramid scheme has been arrested in the Las Vegas after five years on the run, US immigration authorities said late on Saturday.
A German politician turned landlord has been charged with fraud for massively overcharging his welfare benefit tenants and even renting out uninhabitable cellars as flats.
Bank customers who give over their account details to "phishers" despite bank warnings against online scams are liable for their own losses, a top German court ruled on Tuesday.
Germany's Federal Auditing Office has criticized the Transportation Ministry for wasting taxpayer’s money by paying for personnel to attend a trade union conference on the North Sea island of Helgoland.
Six business executives went on trial in Frankfurt on Monday accused of illegally claiming hundreds of millions of euros in tax refunds in a scheme linked to carbon emissions trading.
A former executive for the German children’s TV channel <i>Kinderkanal</i> (Kika) was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in jail for stealing millions from the public broadcaster.
The German children’s TV channel <i>Kinderkanal</i> is at the centre of a fraud scandal with the revelation that a trusted production manager allegedly embezzled up to €7 million from the public station.
Spanish police have detained 25 people suspected of taking part in a 10-million-euro fraud scheme that targeted German owners of timeshare holiday properties on Spain's Canary Islands, the interior ministry said Friday.
