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Entrepreneur in court for suspected Suva fraud
From Monday, two entrepreneurs will have to answer to the court for suspected fraud at Suva in Yverdon VD. They are said to have reported around 20 dubious accidents in order to receive unjustified benefits of several hundred thousand francs.
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The Suva fraud case, which will be heard in Yverdon from Monday, is not the only one that has occupied Suva in recent years. The amount of crimes committed by private individuals varies between 12 and 18 million Swiss francs per year.
As heads of various companies that were active in the construction sector, the two bosses are said to have sent these accident reports between 2010 and 2016 for about ten employees or alleged employees. Depending on the case, the sums received from the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (Suva) ranged from around CHF 1,000 to CHF 215,000.
The alleged accidents are said to have occurred on construction sites in western Switzerland, but also during stays in Kosovo, the accused’s country of origin. The indictment repeatedly points out that the Suva contractors apparently gave “knowingly false information” about the actual course of the accident or the actual inability to work.
The wages of the “victims” were regularly inflated to increase performance. In some cases, the employee did not work for the company that forwarded the report to Suva.
According to prosecutors, not all of these “events” were fabricated, but many of them looked suspicious, were deemed implausible, or were full of inconsistencies.
One of the two entrepreneurs often appears in the list himself. Between 2000 and 2015 he reported 25 accidents that he is said to have suffered himself, with a total of 2404 days of incapacity for work and over 300,000 francs in daily allowances. “Several of these cases result from a fraudulent approach,” says the indictment.
Suva reported these various cases to the public prosecutor in September 2016. In addition to allegations of Suva fraud, the two defendants and an accomplice are suspected of staging a series of fraudulent bankruptcies.
(SDA)