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Bavaria Detains 37-Year-Old in Alleged €1.2 Million Luxury Watch, Sports Ticket Fraud

The arrest followed a three-year probe by Kaufbeuren criminal police with prosecutors in Kempten.

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.