Criminal proceedings: Police employee admits to stealing from evidence room

A former employee of the police has admitted to regularly stealing money from the evidence room at the Nuremberg-Fürth police headquarters. The accused allegedly took nearly 200,000 euros in total, according to the public prosecutor's office.

The funds in question were confiscated from various criminal activities, including drug trafficking, human trafficking, and money laundering operations. The former employee stated, in a declaration read by her defense lawyer, that she could no longer recall the exact amount of money she had taken from the safe.

The thefts came to light when the stored evidence was due to be transferred to the public prosecutor's office, at which point the funds were found to be missing. The woman has been in pre-trial detention since September and faces charges of theft and money laundering. Her former partner is also indicted, accused of holding onto a significant portion of the money for her and is currently on trial for money laundering.

According to the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office, the employee obtained a key to the safe and allegedly accessed it six times after her colleagues had left for the day. The indictment details these six instances of theft. The cash was reportedly handed over to her ex-boyfriend to prevent its discovery at her residence, despite her continued access to the evidence room. Much of the money has since been repaid. The trial is scheduled to continue on Thursday, with a verdict expected.

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she herself no longer knew exactly how much money she had actually taken from the safe.