The Austrian malingerer spent three years in hospitals without payment
The jobless Austrian within three years free-of-charge got some meal and a shelter in the Austrian hospitals, pretending to be ill. According to police, the swindler has managed to deceive the staff of 93 medical institutions for this time.
The 59-years old inhabitant of Vienna Franz Steiger has been detained in an admission room of a hospital. He has gone to the hospital with complaints about fit of weakness and waves of nausea begun after falling from a motorcycle. Suspicions of physicians were caused with complete absence of damages on a body of the patient and contradictions in his story about circumstances of a road accident. When the police detained him, the malingerer confessed, that tried to deceive doctors not for the first time.
Now Franz Steiger is incriminated in illegal residing at 93 medical institutions in Austria. By estimation, the caused damage makes about €100 thousand.