Job center in Germany carelessly paid hundreds of thousands to criminal Arab clan families

Düsseldorf - In the trial of members of the Al-Z clan family. before the Düsseldorf district court, the competent authorities may have generously overlooked suspicions. Although the very rich family led a lavish lifestyle, relatives were granted transfer payments of almost half a million euros.

As it turned out, some of the applications submitted were hardly filled out and addresses were incomplete. "The family was completely inconspicuous," said the head of department for reclaims from the Leverkusen job center, who was called as a witness, as reported by the dpa news agency. "Before the information from the police, we had no reason to assume benefit fraud."

Clans keep Essen police in suspense
The witness explained why clerks were not suspicious because the forms had been filled out in different handwritings by saying that outside help was often enlisted when filling it out. “It is crucial for us that the application is signed. We don't care who filled it out," he said.

But even with the signatures, inconsistencies came to light. After hints from defense attorneys that the signatures in the case of one applicant were not at all similar, the witness said: "We do not check whether the signature has changed." Members of the Al-Z family are accused of gang-like welfare fraud, including money laundering, extortion, hostage-taking and dangerous bodily harm.

North Rhine-Westphalia has a significant problem with immigrant clan families. For example, two rival large Arab families have been keeping the police in Essen on their toes for several days.

Source: Junge Freiheit