Kosovo is sentenced to Switzerland after stealing 400,000 francs from the house of elders while working there

The 54-year-old Kosovo woman worked as a cleaning woman in a retirement home in the town of Winterthur and is suspected to have committed a total of 19 thefts between January 2020 and June 2022.

According to the indictment, she has stolen jewelry, cash ready and gold coins from vaults, wallets, drawers and crates of residents, thus absorbing over 40,000 Swiss francs.

Of the 19 victims of the theft, ten had already died at the time of the indictment in December 2024, the albinfo.ch broadcasts. Fifteen jewelry and 800 Swiss francs in cash were found on it.

The accused refused to testify in the process before the Winter Circle Court. During the investigation, she has denied theft. The married mother had come to Switzerland with her family as asylum seekers more than 20 years earlier. She had been a cleaning woman in a nursing home since 2017. After the matter came to light, it was fired from unannounced work in the summer of 2022.

The public prosecutor accused the woman of mass theft. This was because crime revenues averaged 1,350 francs per month over a period of approximately two and a half years and represented an important contribution to her life, writes 20minute.ch.

Thus, the crown has sought a one-year prison sentence and a 2,000-French fine for women. Since mass theft (traditional) is a so - called catalogal offense, the woman would have to be expelled for five years.

There are no cases of difficulties here that would save her from deportation; it is neither professionally nor socially integrated in the country”, the prosecutor has indicated.

The accused got involved in numerous contradictions and made incredible statements. For example, the cleaning woman claimed that she had originally received a gold necklace with a necklace from a resident of the nursing homes, claiming to have bought jewelry in an old market. The explanation that she had found individual jewelry at the meeting point of the elders ' nursing home was also unbelievable.

The public prosecutor described her behaviour as shameful and unscrupulous.

The “Actions are even more punishable because some elderly people were confused and believed that they had lost jewelry”, he said.

Her lawyer called for release from the charges. My client denies all charges.” There's no evidence of theft. He criticized the testimony of employees who were partial because they still work in the nursing home. In addition, crime revenues were conspicuously lower than the prosecutor stated, since half of the income was jewelry, which are hard to get back to, sends albinfo.ch.

The country's deportation would be unreasonable for the woman who has lived in Switzerland for more than 20 years. Her whole family lives here.

So he further demanded compensation of 3,000 francs for his client. “After its dismissal, she was unable to regain professional balance and was unable to find work,” he explained. Moreover, two days in custody and house control had placed a considerable burden on his client.

The surrounding evidence was insufficient for the court.

The court sentenced the woman to a parole fine for only two thefts and did not order expulsion. For the remaining thefts, the prosecutor's trial chain was insufficient”, the judge said. Doubts of guilt could not be ruled out.