False claims over Nazi persecution

Scores of Hungarians pretending to be victims of Nazi persecution claimed an equivalent of US$ 1.6 million in compensation from an Austrian fund, Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag reported on Wednesday.

Scores of Hungarians pretending to be victims of Nazi persecution claimed an equivalent of US$ 1.6 million in compensation from an Austrian fund, Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag reported on Wednesday.

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Police have arrested one person and pressed charges against 23 further individuals in the central Hungarian county of Bacs Kiskun for falsifying documents, fabricating stories and submitting invented witness accounts regarding their deportation to concentration or forced labour camps in Austria during World War II.

Authorities were investigating 320 cases of suspected fraud in the county, police inspector Gabor Mate told the paper. Individual compensations, disbursed by the Austrian Reconciliation Fund to Hungarian victims of Nazi aggression, vary between US$3,300 and US$10,000, the paper said.