Kathmandu. A woman in the US who managed to collect $20 million (about 3.5 billion rupees) from a fake death claim has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
Maureen Wilson, a resident of Maryland, US, has been found guilty of receiving billions of dollars in payments from fake death claims. A federal court on Monday found Maureen guilty of conspiring to issue insurance policies in the names of various people and receiving payments by submitting fake death claims to insurance companies.
Based on documents and evidence submitted to the court, it appears that Maureen, with the help of her husband James Wilson, was able to carry out the insurance fraud. The investigation revealed that she issued 40 life insurance policies in the names of different people from different companies. She had issued life insurance policies to insurance companies by stealing the personal details of all those people. Later, she was able to collect more than $20 million by submitting fake death claims for the same people.
Maureen has been convicted of money laundering, forgery, and other charges. The investigation also revealed that she had collected money from individual investors to pay insurance premiums.
After receiving the money for the payment of the fake death claims, the Wilsons deposited it into various bank accounts. By submitting false documents, she managed to get about $7.7 million through income tax returns between 2018 and 2019.
The court will determine the sentence for Maureen on June 20. However, according to US law, she is certain to be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for all these frauds, according to legal experts. –Agency
