The couple married and divorced 12 times and received 326,000 euros

Neighbors say that this is an “exemplary couple”.

The couple from Austria married and divorced 12 times in the last 43 years, although neighbors called their relationship “a model marriage”.

As it turned out, their volatile marriage was part of a scheme aimed at obtaining 326,000 euros from the country's pension system, reports Bild.

The couple are now under investigation for serious fraud after they took advantage of a loophole in Austrian law that allowed the wife to claim €27,000 with each new marriage.

The wife, who was actually married 13 times, began receiving a widow's pension from the state to support herself financially after the death of her first husband in 1981. Just a year later, the woman, who is now 73, married her second husband for the first time, who is several years younger than her.

They broke up because of…