Overview

• Investigators searched 23 homes and businesses plus two construction sites across Hessen, Ludwigshafen and Berlin with about 290 officers involved.
• Two men aged 40 and 41 were arrested on warrants as workers were questioned and extensive evidence was secured.
• Authorities are investigating eleven suspects—six men and five women—on allegations of tax evasion and misappropriated social-security contributions.
• Officials say service firms sold cover invoices while a construction company that billed roughly €5 million nationwide allegedly paid about €3 million in off-the-books wages, with preliminary social-insurance losses of around €1.4 million.
• Courts issued two asset arrests that were enforced through seizures, and the inquiry continues with damages estimated in the multimillion-euro range.