Surprisingly set fraud investigations-Diepresse.com
The Grazer received a widow’s board after the death of her first husband. With the weddings and divorces, she received 326,000 euros. The public prosecutor does not see any criminal crime fulfilled.
Surprise in a suspected suspicion of social security fraud in December 2024: a Graz couple had been Married twelve times and divorce again as oftento collect widow board – the woman’s first husband had died over 40 years ago. According to the police, this is said to have caused damage of up to 326,000 euros. The Graz public prosecutor’s office has now hired the procedure.
The public prosecutor referred to a corresponding report by the « Kleine Zeitung » (Tuesday edition) on request to the edict files of the Ministry of Justice. This said, among other things,: « The fact that the facts have to be identical must be identical. » The fact of the fraud expressly requires that if the damage only occurs through a further act of the perpetrator or a third party, it lacks the immediacy and there is therefore no fraud. «
Only the respective divorce judges were deceived. The PVA had always made the couple available the corresponding divorce papers. The payment of the widow’s board was only refused at the twelfth time.
Display about suspicion of severe commercial fraud
According to police agencies, the two of them had also led a flagship marriage and never lived separately, a disruption to the marriage had not been stated. The environment of the two is said to have noticed the repeated marriage and the divorces are not at all noticed. In any case, the couple had been reported by the police for suspected serious commercial fraud.
According to the attitude, the two accused had claimed their right to refuse the statement. Furthermore, the edict said: « The behavior of the two accused, albeit without a question for years of abuse of the law, could therefore not fulfill a criminal crime, so that the investigation was to be stopped in accordance with Section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. »
Police determined
In December 2024, the state police department made the case public. At that time it was said that the 73-year-old widow married her second husband for the first time in 1982. She divorced him again six years later. With this she was again entitled to a widow’s board. The couple, who always lived in the common household, practiced this procedure further eleven times by 2022.
After a waiting time of two and a half years, the woman was changed alternately the legally due widow’s board or handling – in the amount of 2.5 -fold annual reference to the widow board. After the last divorce in May 2022, the pension insurance institution refused to grant the widow’s pension again. However, the person concerned fought this negative decision up to the maximum court, which ultimately confirmed the legal view of the judicial lower courts. (APA)
