Overview
- Police say the suspect from the Buchloe area targeted private buyers and companies over several years.
- The scheme allegedly used social media and an online sales portal to solicit down payments without delivering goods.
- Authorities estimate total losses at about €1.2 million across roughly ten to twenty known incidents.
- Officers arrested the man early Tuesday under an existing warrant, and he was placed in pretrial detention the same day.
- Investigators attribute the case to coordinated work by Kripo Kaufbeuren and the Kempten prosecutor’s office.