Woman (55) who claimed to be tax official jailed for six years
[InTime News]
A 55-year-old woman who defrauded people of up to €184,000 by claiming she was a senior tax official has been sentenced to six year’s imprisonment by a Thessaloniki court.
The woman, who purported to be a director of the Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE), promised her victims that she could secure them a position in the tax agency in return for payment.
She was found guilty of 18 counts of serial fraud that occurred in 2020 and 2021.
In one case, she is alleged to have extorted €60,000 from a victim.
The woman was exposed when one of her victims complained to the police.
A Thessaloniki appeals court found no mitigating circumstances and ordered the woman to be jailed.
