Overview
- Inspectors are verifying social insurance registration, potential wrongful benefit claims, required work permits for foreign workers, and compliance with minimum wages.
- Teams are conducting worker interviews and reviewing business records on site, which often serve as the starting point for deeper probes.
- Authorities said preliminary results from Tuesday’s full-day operation will be published on Wednesday.
- On Monday, more than 160 officers searched 16 residential and business locations linked to construction companies across Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia.
- Prosecutors in Mühlhausen are investigating a 36-year-old Weimar businessman and 21 others over suspected unpaid social contributions and tax evasion, alleging sham invoices and underreported wages caused damages above €1.2 million, with computers and smartphones seized.