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A Romanian Gang Scammed Austria's Guarantee-Return System, Which Was the Method by Which They Got About 150,000 Euros.

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Evil ingenuity knows no limits. A Romanian gang managed to fraud Austria's guarantee-return system. Although it seems hard to understand how this was possible, here is that the solution was found: Counterfeit Stricles. One of the perpetrators was caught, and three are still at large, writes Heute.

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Evil ingenuity knows no limits. A Romanian gang managed to fraud Austria's guarantee-return system. Although it seems hard to understand how this was possible, here is that the solution was found: Counterfeit Stricles. One of the perpetrators was caught, and three are still at large, writes Heute.

·Bucharest, Romania
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Seven-member perpetrators had rented a warehouse in Bruck an der Leitha district for the fraud.

·Vienna, Austria
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Police uncover major fraud with returnable packaging. As many as 600,000 fake bottles released into circulation!     Austrian police have uncovered a major fraud with returnable packaging in which, according to investigators, a group of seven people participated. The suspects allegedly put hundreds of thousands of counterfeit reusable bottles into circulation throughout Austria in order to fraudulently obtain […]

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Ordinary empty bottles have become a tool for a fraud worth around 150,000 euros. A seven-member group of Romanian citizens is suspected of cashing in as many as 600,000 counterfeit bottles across Austria, exploiting a weakness in packaging return machines.

A group of at least seven Romanians is suspected to have devised a fraud of proportions in Austria, using about 600,000 counterfeit bottles to get money through the packaging return system. The damage is estimated at several hundred thousand euros.

A Romanian gang specially had hundreds of thousands of fake bottles made and dumped them into the Austrian deposit system. The damage is not small.

·Bratislava, Slovakia
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meinbezirk.at broke the news on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
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