Overview
- Police report more than 1,000 people checked and 230 premises and vehicles searched across the state as the operation concluded.
- Officers executed 29 arrest warrants and secured over €850,000 in cash, luxury goods and vehicles, while filing 76 criminal complaints and opening more than 200 administrative cases.
- About 560 personnel from police, customs, jobcenters, tax investigators and municipal regulators carried out coordinated checks in cities including Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
- Suspicions focus on benefits being drawn while working off the books or concealing assets, with related allegations of subsidy fraud, document forgery, illegal employment and drug and weapons violations at some sites.
- Officials note 624 recorded welfare-fraud cases in 2024 with an estimated high dark figure, and say the sweep also seized five of 26 cars checked in separate racer and poser controls.