Employee pays himself €750,000 in “overtime”

Scandal in a small German town: For at least five years, a German town hall employee is said to have paid himself four times his salary. He allegedly siphoned off a total of 750,000 euros for the supposed "overtime". At the beginning of January, the town hall in Bad Sachsa in the state of Lower Saxony was searched for allegations of breach of trust, and now new details have come to light. According to research by RTL, a town employee is said to …

An employee of the city of Bad Sachsa is said to have paid himself hundreds of thousands of euros for overtime. The problem? He would have had to work 27 hours a day to get that.An employee of the city of Bad Sachsa is said to have paid himself hundreds of thousands of euros for overtime. The problem? He would have had to work 27 hours a day to get that.