Nationwide more than 11,000 investigations into forged vaccination passports
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The fake vaccination passports are not only offered for sale on Telegram, but also on Whatsapp or ebay classified ads
Source: dpa / Patrick Pleul
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A survey by the “taz” at all German state criminal investigation offices shows that the police are investigating more than 11,000 cases nationwide because of forged vaccination passports – with a clearly increasing tendency in recent months. In addition, there is probably a high number of unreported cases.
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IIn Germany, according to a media report, the police have so far processed more than 11,000 cases of forged vaccination passports. This is reported by the “Tageszeitung” (taz), citing a survey of all German state criminal police offices (LKA). These therefore assume a high number of unreported cases.
According to the report, the LKA Bayern alone has been investigating 3,070 cases since the beginning of the year; at the beginning of September there were only 110 such cases. In North Rhine-Westphalia 2495 cases have been counted, almost half of them since the end of November. In Berlin there are 1028 cases, in Hesse and Baden-Württemberg each a number in the “lower four-digit range”, in Rhineland-Palatinate 727 and in Hamburg 720 cases, even in the poorly populated Schleswig-Holstein there are 550 cases – two thirds of them are of which occurred in the past four weeks.
The Saxon State Criminal Police Office stated that there was a large number of unreported cases. It is determined “consistently in every suspected case”. According to the newspaper, an internal situation report from the Federal Ministry of the Interior assumes that the demand for fake vaccination passports will “level off” due to the tightened corona measures.
