🔗 Share this article Meter Inspector and Wife Arrested in €1 Million Parking Embezzlement Case A parking inspector and his spouse have been arrested on suspicion of misappropriating over €1m from the coin-operated meters of a modest town in Germany. The unnamed municipal employee is thought to have removed cash from street meters in the town on multiple instances and placed them in financial accounts that his spouse had access to, authorities said in a release. A financial crime report by a bank alerted authorities to the alleged theft. The parking inspector has been accused with 720 counts of theft, while his wife faces multiple counts of assisting in theft. The town's Mayor the mayor expressed he was shocked and dismayed by the allegations. In October, the Kempten public prosecutor's office were informed that cash was repeatedly being deposited into multiple accounts, as reported by sources. Police then raided office premises in the early hours of November 24, the same day that a 40-year-old man and a woman in her late thirties were arrested. They are now being detained in separate detention facilities. It is not clear how long it might have required the pair to accumulate the amount. In response to the accusations, Kiechle announced the appointment of a commission to review past work processes, identify possible weaknesses, and reliably remedy them for the coming years. He added that the identities of the individuals could not currently be disclosed due to the active investigation and privacy concerns. In a written statement, the mayor said: "I certainly back the public prosecutor's office and the police in their detailed investigation of the allegations." "Until the proceedings are resolved, the innocent until proven guilty applies," he added. The town is one of the oldest settlements in Germany. Situated in the country's south, it sits under the hills of the Allgäu and has approximately 70,000 inhabitants.