Forgery for benefits leads a Greek policeman to jail

A former Greek policeman, in order to claim benefits from government, showed himself as the largest family of 19 children. He collected the phototgraphs of children from internet and create false birth certificates. The average Greek family has 2 or 3 children. And he was the only one with that big a family.The police sensed something fishy.  


This Wednesday, the man was ready to collect his benefits of 8,000 euros from an Athens branch of Greece's employment agency OAED. He was arrested and taken to the prosecutor's office.

The man's record was the same since 2001 when he quit his job of $1,300 euros. He has been living on the benefits since then.

The former Policeman cannot be named under Greek Law. 

The Greek state is very generous but there have been many other cases of fraud from the public sector recently.