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Finally on March 5. The government was forced to suspend payments entirely when it became clear that millions of euros had flowed from the coronavirus support fund to fraudulent accounts. Worse, Islamists have also been able to take advantage of the fund’s benefits. The state security and the Berlin prosecutor’s office are investigating more than 100 fraud cases related to Islamists.
“Gang methods have been used,” the investigators quoted Welt am Sonntag as saying.
Lawsuits have been filed against 60 people, as well as mosque communities and organizations belonging to the Islamist spectrum. In at least three cases, coronavirus support money is suspected of being used to fund terrorism in war zones in the Middle East, the post wrote based on information received from Berlin law enforcement.
A spokeswoman for the Berlin prosecutor’s office confirmed on Monday that an investigation into the accusation had been launched. However, so far there is no evidence that the money has actually been transferred to the Islamic State terrorists, he told the German press agency dpa.
Starting March 14. According to Welt am Sonntag, members of the Salafist and anti-Semitic association Jama’atu received financial support from the pandemic fund. It is the same association that Anis Amri belonged to. People crushed by truck at the Berlin Christmas Fair.
Stealing from “unbelievers” is not a sin
Similar stories of financial fraud are not new. In the spring, the country’s media reported that many Islamists, including terrorist fiduciary A. Amri, had cleverly managed to receive financial support for the coronavirus.
The coronavirus support fund was also enriched last April by Ahmad Armih, a Salafist known for inciting sermons and monitored by internal intelligence. As Bild wrote in the spring, according to prosecutors, the Al Qaeda Armih terror group calls his sermons a “blessed jihad” and teaches Muslims to stay away from “disbelievers.”
However, this does not prevent the preacher and his wife from receiving social benefits from the status of “unbelievers.” And taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis, a canny Salafist received a € 18,000 grant from the Landesbank Investment Bank, giving false information that he was trading honey.
How, in that context, not to mention the arrogant Arab clans in Berlin, 90 percent of whose members live on sacred benefits, despite driving luxury cars and owning?
Everything outside their inner space is seen by them as a “looting territory”, and Germany is a “prey society”, as they see us, explains Ghadban, a German political scientist from Lebanon.
For honest citizens, it’s like a punch to the face
Last year several large-scale raids were carried out against individuals and groups in the Islamist milieu in Berlin to identify cases of similar fraud involving the Coronavir Support Fund theory.
In the spring, the Islamists managed to confiscate 94,000 euros from the fund, at least in the Tagesspiegel in Berlin.
The total amount of damage caused by Islamists is now one million euros, Welt am Sonntag told law enforcement.
€ 250,000 has been found during searches carried out in recent months by the State Criminal Police Service (LKA) in various mosques, offices of mosque associations and private flats in Berlin.
Göran Schattauer, author of Focus magazine, commented on the report, published by Welt am Sonntag.
Germany, he said, “is a state that demands taxes and fees from its citizens efficiently and without compromise. However, when the citizens themselves get into trouble, the state cannot help them financially without obvious failures. “
The state loses its most important capital: the trust of its citizens
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU), justifying the delay in providing financial aid to companies and the self-employed, explained that it takes a long time to scrutinize applications for financial aid. Now, with scandalous information about the huge sums seized by scammers, the excuse of such a minister, according to Schattauer, “sounds like a cheap evasion.”
It is not just Islamists who have tried to cash in on the coronavirus fund. According to Welt am Sonntag, around 25,400 cases are currently being opened in the 16 forensic services of the Länder and in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the customs authorities. According to the current investigation, scammers have been able to seize “an enormous amount of hundreds of millions of euros” by providing false information.
The quarantine restrictions have hit businesses hard, said Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
It is even more painful for the citizens who create and support the state economy to know that the money from the coronavirus support fund did not flow to them, but to the Islamists who were destroying the foundations of society. In this way, not only money is lost, but also the most important state capital – the trust of citizens.
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