The Corona aid in Bavaria has called numerous suspected fraudsters onto the scene – the Munich I public prosecutor now wants to bring another six suspects to court. In an indictment filed at the end of February, the authority accuses four people of having helped that more than six million euros were applied for without justification. The suspects between the ages of 24 and 51 are said to have formed a gang for this purpose, as prosecutors announced on Wednesday.
With the help of a newly founded company, they are said to have issued bogus invoices for hygiene measures to a large number of companies – including their own. These bogus invoices are said to have been used to fake high expenses for hygiene, renovation and training measures, for which government corona aid was then applied for. The result: payments from the state treasury to the respective companies. In a further indictment, the prosecutors accuse a 37-year-old of fraudulently applying for Corona bridging aid of more than two million euros. His 38-year-old wife is said to have helped.