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Emotional tears in court: deceived cancer victim cannot heal!
Emotional process in Weiden: Fraud victim fights for medical treatment after major financial fraud. Judgments expected.
Emotional tears in court: deceived cancer victim cannot heal!
The trial against a real estate agent from Weiden, who is said to have swindled over 65,000 euros from an injured woman, is taking dramatic turns. Day five of the trial revealed the plight of a 31-year-old breast cancer patient who can no longer afford medical treatments because she had to take out loans and ultimately beg her family for money to cover her investments. How oberpfalzecho.de reports, she is not the only one affected: other women from Bavaria have also fallen victim to the fraudster.
An engineer from Munich successfully took action against the defendant and was able to get almost 100,000 euros back after exerting considerable pressure. However, this only begins to explain the financial and legal dimensions of the case. The defendant, who acted closely surrounded by shadows, had around 50 accounts and was already in debt of half a million euros in 2016. Between 2017 and 2022, around 7 million euros passed through his accounts, with 1.1 million euros being spent on vehicle costs alone.
The dimensions of fraud
It turns out that this type of fraud is not even an isolated case in Germany. Loud br.de, over 16,000 investors were defrauded of a total of almost 6.8 million euros by a family from Upper Palatinate. The family, consisting of a 50-year-old woman, her 55-year-old husband, and their 31-year-old son, were convicted of fraud on a particularly brazen scale. The defendants had wooed investors with false promises to get them to join a non-existent cooperative.
The situation shows how clever and dangerous some fraudsters can be. The judges spoke of a “fraudulent business model”; Even the cooperative's few investments, in the form of a single apartment in Weiden, are disproportionate to the investors' lost money.
A look back at the fraud case
The current situation is alarming, especially since fraud crime in Germany fell by 1.5 percent in 2024 to a total of 743,472 cases BKA has determined. Nevertheless, the number of unreported cases remains high, as only around 20 percent of fraud crimes are reported. The ongoing fraud crimes, including in particular the perfidious call center scams, make it clear how important prevention is.
Whether with the so-called “grandchild trick,” in which perpetrators pose as relatives, or with fake police officers who demand money to “secure” assets, fraudsters are always finding new ways to get their victims’ money. Police authorities are working on strategies to combat these international crime phenomena and call for vigilance.
The trial will continue next Wednesday and it remains to be seen what the judge's verdict will be. In any case, the stories of the victims are an urgent appeal to the public to be more careful and suspicious when it comes to supposedly lucrative investments.