A daughter had been receiving her dead mother’s pension for 16 years, illegally receiving payments to the tune of 111.138 euros.

The woman from Granada is now facing 4-years’ imprisonment, if found guilty.

The Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social began investigating this irregularity and managed to recover 33,000 euros of the total paid out, leaving 77,000 euros outstanding.

It all began with the mother’s death on the 15th of June, 1998, whose demise was not reported to the Seguridad Social by the next of kin, her daughter, resulting the the continued widow-allowance payments each month to the amount of 600 euros.

The money was paid each month into the mother’s joint account with her daughter at the Caja Granada. When this savings bank was absorbed by the BMN, the money went directly into the daughter’s account.

And things carried on merrily in this fashion until the 31st of October, 2014, which is when the Seguridad Social caught on.

Quite apart from the court case, if the daughter cannot return the money, the BMN bank will have to cough up for its subsidiary’s civil liability.

(News: Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)