A couple who have been married and divorced 12 times in 43 years, because of the reason 'absurd'
Dec 13, 2024
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According to German media Bild, Austrian police are investigating a couple living in Vienna for financial fraud.
The investigative agency suspects that the couple has been married and divorced 12 times by exploiting the loophole in the pension, which is paid for each marriage.
A (73), a woman living in the city of Graz, Austria, received a widow's pension of 27,000 euros (about 40 million won) when her first husband died in 1981.
She then married her second husband, who was younger, in 1982, and first legally divorced in 1988. At that time, the woman claimed that her husband had neglected his housework, and the court accepted it and approved the divorce.
Then, a pension of 27,000 euros was paid to the woman who was alone in the divorce.
Since then, the two have repeated a total of 12 marriages and divorces over the past 43 years. After an average of three years of marital relationship, they divorced every time. However, it turned out that the two lived a daily married life together in the same house.
In this way, the couple's pension was estimated to total 326,000 euros (about 490 million won).
The pension fund authorities caught this late and requested the police to investigate it. The police are investigating the alleged financial fraud and plan to put it on trial soon.
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