Raids against social fraud: NRW authorities strike hard!
Raids against social fraud: NRW authorities strike hard!
On January 23, 2025, comprehensive raids against alleged social fraudsters were carried out in five cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. According to ZEIT ONLINE were involved in the controls. The measures were directed against exploitative employment relationships and undeclared work in the cities of Wuppertal, Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg, Leverkusen and Krefeld.
As part of the operation, more than 50 buildings and between 80 and 100 residential units were monitored, which were mainly inhabited by people from Southeast Europe. The raids led to different checks of employers and to combat detectors and problematic construction and housing stocks. Apparitions and cases of abuse of social service were also examined exactly.
authorities involved and focus of the controls
The police, the health department, the immigration authority, the building supervision, the Federal Employment Agency, the Fire Brigade, the Financial Control, the Ordnungsamt and the Housing supervision included
. Minister of construction Ina Scharrenbach said that the municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia were often faced with ruthless structures. The most common topics of the searches concerned not only exploited employment relationships, but also hygiene regulations that were often disregarded.
The raids are in the context of a chronic problem of social fraud in Germany. According to estimates by the economist Friedrich Schneider, the annual total damage due to fraud, undeclared work and tax evasion is around 113 billion euros. In this context, 272.5 million euros were officially determined in 2022 by social fraud, which is about 1.3 % of the budget for citizens' income, such as the DetailsQuellen
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