Dresden (dpa / sn) - The Dresden public prosecutor's office has brought charges against a woman and two men on suspicion of subsidy fraud. The two men, aged 53 and 56, are in custody, and no arrest warrant has been issued against the 60-year-old woman, as the public prosecutor announced on Friday in Dresden.
They are therefore charged with gang and commercial subsidy fraud in 45 cases. Overall, they had wrongly applied for corona subsidies of over 570,000 euros from the Saxon Development Bank and the city of Dresden, 404,000 euros were paid out.
According to the public prosecutor, the older of the men was the managing director and de facto managing director of two Dresden-based companies that, as subcontractors for construction companies, mainly took on demolition and clearing work. The other two suspects worked in the company. The 56-year-old has already been convicted of white-collar crime.
"The work was performed by Romanian, Moldovan and Greek workers who - without their knowledge - had been booked and billed by the accused as apparently self-employed with their own business registration since January 2019 at the latest, but actually had no entrepreneurial knowledge or ambitions," it said it.
By the end of March 2020 at the latest, the accused should have made the decision to apply for all accessible corona subsidies for the bogus self-employed and to keep the funds thus obtained for themselves or the company. According to the public prosecutor's office, the accused have not yet commented on the allegations.
