The discovery of welfare abuse that could run to millions, prompted the setting up of a special commission.
The new commission in the northern German city in Brunswick, will probe welfare fraud believed to have been committed by Sudanese refugees.
Local reports suggest the majority of more than 300 cases point to asylum seekers who arrived in Germany in 2015. One fraudster is believed to have used as many as 12 different identities to steal cash from state benefits.
On average, each fraud suspect, cheated authorities out of thousands of euros. In one case, one asylum seeker had 12 identities.”He had received some 45,000 euros illegally,” the commission chairman said.
Joern Memenga, the chairman of the commission, explained to Deutsche Welle that the migrants had registered themselves several times, often arriving is various disguises to fool staff into paying out multiple welfare payments.
Asylum seekers who arrived last year are now being asked to return to registration centers to provide their fingerprints.”You can maybe fake your name and date of birth, but you can’t fake your fingerprint,” Memenga said..
Between January and June 2016 Germany received 387 675 first-time asylum applicants, more than twice as many as the country received during the whole of 2014.
The news comes after it emerged that Anis Amri, the terrorist responsible for the killed 12 people when he ploughed a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market, used various identities to steal money from the German state to fund his terror plot.
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