Questão jurídica principal
Whether the accused committed fraud by deceitful misrepresentations in the social assistance questionnaires.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Repeated false statements about the spouse’s income, combined with the circumstances, amounted to astuce.
Fundamentação extraída
The accused systematically denied his wife’s earnings despite clear disclosure duties. The social welfare office was not required to perform further checks in the absence of any indication that the tax return contained hidden supporting documents, and the office’s reliance was not negligent in the legal sense.