Pet poodle comes to the rescue in German fraud case and more

Pet poodle comes to the rescue in German fraud case

A fraudster’s pet poodle has helped police track down a German woman accused of embezzlement and faking her own death. (See German ‘dead fraudster’ exposed by pet poodle in Majorca, BBC, May 6, 2021.)

Spanish police have arrested a 47-year-old woman who is suspected of having stolen around 1 million euros from a German solar power firm and was hiding out on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Detectives hired by the company used social media searches to discover that the fraudster owned a “giant” poodle, which is not a common breed on the island. They soon tracked down the woman when a man was spotted walking a dog of that description near a villa in the town of Santa Ponça.

Last year, the German solar company grew suspicious of the woman after her parents reported that she had died in a car crash in March 2020. The woman, who has reportedly admitted that she faked her own death, is now out on bail, according to the article.

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