Woman arrested after allegedly faking own death in £140k insurance scam

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A 45-year-old woman has been arrested by detectives from the City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) after she allegedly faked her own death.

This was to allow her family to make a £140,000 false life insurance claim in her name. The woman's son and his guardian made a claim for life insurance in May. They claimed that the woman had died in a car crash in Zanzibar and allegedly provided false documentation such as a death certificate and road traffic accident reports to make the claim. The insurance company tried to verify the death of the woman in Zanzibar and found the documentation to be suspicious, they decided not to pay the claim and in late 2016 they referred the case to IFED which launched an investigation. Th...

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