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After pretending to be dead, a German in Mallorca faces a prison sentence of up to six years.
According to experts, the parents of the 47-year-old must fear a similar punishment because of aiding and abetting.
You are accused of fraudulent proceedings and forgery of documents.
"The maximum sentence for all three would be six years in prison," said Jaime Campaner, a lawyer specializing in criminal law, of the German press agency on Saturday.
The woman is said to have faked her death to avoid embezzlement proceedings.
The police confirmed a corresponding report in the newspaper "Diario de Mallorca" on Wednesday upon request.
The 47-year-old is suspected of having defrauded her former employer out of one million euros, the newspaper wrote.
When she was supposed to appear for a court hearing in Mallorca last November, her parents announced that she had died in a car accident in Rostock in March and had presented a forged death certificate.
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The damaged company, however, questioned the information and hired private detectives.
Based on traces in social media, they came to the conclusion that the woman may have lived under a false identity in Santa Ponça on Mallorca.
Since they knew from photos on the Internet that the woman owned a giant poodle, which is rarely found on the island, they observed the area around the woman's presumed place of residence, as the newspaper reported.
Police arrested woman at her home
A man who went for a walk with such a dog finally led the detectives to the house of the wanted.
The police were then notified and arrested the woman at home.
In doing so, she admitted her true identity.
She was brought before a judge who released her under certain conditions.