Minnesota Man Sentenced for Faking Death for $2M Insurance
A Minnesota man will serve more than three years in prison for faking his own death eight years ago in Eastern Europe to collect a USD 2 million life insurance policy.
Minneapolis, Jul 30 (AP) A Minnesota man will serve more than three years in prison for faking his own death eight years ago in Eastern Europe to collect a USD 2 million life insurance policy.
Fifty-five-year-old Igor Vorotinov, formerly of Maple Grove, was sentenced for mail fraud Monday in U.S. District Court.
Authorities alleged Vorotinov in 2011 arranged for a corpse to be dressed in his clothes and planted his identification on the body before placing it along a road in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. An insurance company sent his ex-wife a USD 2 million check in 2012.
The scheme also included a 2011 funeral service at a Minneapolis cemetery, where an urn was placed in a niche. Tests later determined the remains were not Vorotinov's. It's not clear whose they were. (AP)
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