As Election Day approaches, stories will be told about how many dead people have been able to vote over the years. That’s one thing; it’s quite another when a company found out it had a dead person on its payroll.
A British man has pleaded guilty to faking his own death to receive a $600,000 life insurance payment.
That’s bad enough. But Ahmad Akhtary of Gloucester didn’t try too hard to make it really appear that he was dead — he continued to work and pay taxes in his own name.
Akhtary obtained a fake death certificate from Afghanistan saying he died in an accident in that country. Then, he and his wife conspired to use the fake document to get the insurance payout, according to the newspaper, The Sun. Both pleaded guilty to those charges.
Each was sentenced to a suspended prison term of nine months and were ordered to complete 40 hours of community service work.
Fortunately for the insurance company, the payment was never made to Akhtary’s wife. Authorities uncovered his scam when the supposedly dead man made appointments to see his doctor.
