Two Villachers in custody – farmer defrauded of tens of thousands of euros

Two Villach fraudsters, who the police were able to put a stop to, have multiple criminal records and still not been cleansed. A 58-year-old and his accomplice (24) brought a farmer out of tens of thousands of euros and also committed numerous other frauds.

The Villacher (58) had presented themselves to the 71-year-old farmer from Central Carinthia as a high-ranking employee of the Chamber of Agriculture and, using forged documents, pretended that he could get the farmer subsidized and therefore heavily discounted feed for his animals. However, only against an advance payment. In tranches, the bona fide farmer handed over tens of thousands of euros to the 58-year-old and even took out loans for it. Investigators from the Villach city police command were not able to prove enough that the duo had committed several rental frauds in various hotels in the Draustadt, whereby these According to the police, they always acted as father and son. This week, the handcuffs clicked for both of them when the 24-year-old was caught red-handed in a retail store in Villach. The man had tried under a false name to pick up high-priced washing machines that the 58-year-old had previously ordered under a false name. The whereabouts of the fraudster were determined in the course of the investigation. The Villach fraud duo was delivered to the prison in Klagenfurt by order of the public prosecutor’s office. The amount of the total damage incurred has not yet been determined.
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