Five arrested for scamming state out of around 1.8 mln euros
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Five people have been arrested in Athens for allegedly robbing the Greek state of an estimated 1.8 million euros, police said on Thursday.
Two suspects, a man aged 41 and a woman, 47, are thought to be the brains behind the scheme of creating fake employment and insurance records at nonexistent businesses for people who actually worked at a company they owned.
Investigators are looking into an additional eight suspects, one of whom is already in prison.