The Netherlands’ Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), together with the country’s National Criminal Investigation Department, has arrested two women from Ede and Leusden on suspicion of embezzlement. One of the detainees works for a travel company. The authorities have conducted searches at their residential addresses and seized their accounts.
The authorities suspect that the detainees fraudulently transferred the travel reimbursements of customers’ corona vouchers into their personal accounts. The travel company took note of this fraud after it received complaints from customers who had not received their compensation.
Upon investigation, the travel company discovered that the vouchers had been paid, but not to the customers’ accounts. Moreover, to facilitate their criminal activity, the suspects attempted to open as many bank accounts at different banks as possible.
Source: Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, Netherlands