Investigators have secured around eight million euros in cash after several raids on billing fraud in health care in Bavaria.
The money was in bank lockers and private homes of nurses, said the head of the crime inspection Augsburg, Gerhard Zintl.
If the amounts added up, that would not have anything to do with petty crime. In addition to cash, gold bars, expensive watches and jewelry were found.
Searched more than 210 objects
On Wednesday, around 630 police and 33 prosecutors had searched more than 210 apartments and business premises in the Munich and Augsburg area.
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Nursing services should have systematically exploited weaknesses in the nursing care insurance control system in their favor. Also, the care needs of patients should be partially inflated artificially significantly in order to settle more services than required. Patients or their relatives should have partially participated.
Even before the searches, the prosecutor's office had assumed a loss in the amount of about 3.6 million euros. In total, arrest warrants were issued against 13 accused persons.
