Pakistan woman gets USD 1.5 million insurance on false death certificate
Islamabad, Dec 05: Pakistani authorities have launched an investigation after a woman fraudulently got herself declared dead and claimed two life insurance policies worth $1.5 million.
According to an official of the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA), which is looking into the case, Seema Kharbay travelled to the US in 2008 and 2009, and bought two hefty life insurance policies in her name.
In 2011, she bribed some local government officials in Pakistan including a doctor and got a death certificate issued in her name. The document also showed that she had been buried.
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The certificate was used by her children to claim two life insurance policy payouts worth $1.5 million (approximately 23 crore Pakistani Rupees), the official said.
Kharbay,
after
being
declared
dead,
travelled
at
least
10
times
abroad
from
the
Karachi
International
Airport,
apparently
under
assumed
identities
with
none
of
the
airlines
being
able
to
detect
the
fraud.
"She
visited
some
five
countries,
but
every
time
she
returned
home,"
the
official
said.
The FIA human trafficking cell has now registered criminal cases against the woman, her son and daughter and some local government officials, including a doctor.
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"The American authorities alerted us about this woman and we started investigation into this large-scale fraud," the official added.