A parking inspector and his wife have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than €1m (£878,000) from a small German town's parking meters.

taking coins out of parking meters and placing them in bank accounts that his wife had access to, local police said in a statement.

 A money laundering report by a credit institution alerted investigators to the suspected theft. 

The man faces 720 alleged incidents of theft, and subsequent cash being deposited into bank accounts and his wife faces 720 charges of aiding and abetting theft 

Kempten is located in the country's south, and is one of the oldest settlements in Germany. It has around 70,000 residents.

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Wrap your mind around how much the parking must cost, per hour, for this nearly million Euro to have been unnoticed by the city, for long enough for 720 chargeable counts of theft to happen.