A man in Zurich has been sentenced to close to four years in prison after receiving more than half a million francs of welfare despite possessing numerous cars and large bank balances, according to Tages-Anzeiger and reported in 20 Minutes. The 51 year old man from Kosovo, who received CHF 527,000 of welfare money between […]
Suspected welfare cheats can be trailed from October
Agencies paying social welfare in Switzerland will be able to hire detectives to uncover fraud from 1 October 2019. In Switzerland, between 2009 and 2016, detectives were used on around 220 investigations a year. Two thirds of those trailed were found guilty of fraud. In 2016, the European court of human rights ruled that accident […]
