{"id":16239,"date":"2019-07-30T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/?post_type=oarticle&amp;p=4378329"},"modified":"2019-07-30T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:01:00","slug":"man-who-faked-death-for-life-insurance-gets-three-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/30\/man-who-faked-death-for-life-insurance-gets-three-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Faked Death For Life Insurance Gets Three Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<span class=\"publication\">Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"featured-image left pull-box small pull-box hide-md hide-sm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"783\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_79346044-783x560.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium-thumb-post size-medium-thumb-post wp-post-image\" alt><figcaption class=\"text-left\">A Minnesota man is heading to prison after faking his own death to collect life insurance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div> <span><\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span><br \/>\n <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man from Moldova was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison for faking his death to collect a $2 million life insurance payment.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Vorotinov, 55, pleaded guilty in May and will serve 41 months. The case stemmed from a life insurance policy he took out on himself and designated his wife, Irina, as the primary beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vorotinov\u2019s guilty plea and documents filed in court, the Moldovan police discovered a man\u2019s body by the side of a road near the village of Cojusna in 2011. Authorities mistakenly determined it was Vorotinov and that he had died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Vorotinov starting using the name \u201cNikoly Patoka\u201d and lived in Transnistria, a small Russian-controlled region of Moldova, from approximately 2012 until approximately November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, his wife knowingly submitted a false death benefits claim, documents said. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company sent a $2 million check to her home in Maple Grove.<\/p>\n<p>She involved a third party to open up an account in her son\u2019s name to deposit the check. The proceeds were sent to Switzerland and Moldova. The son was stopped by Customs and Border Protection in Detroit. A computer seized by agents showed photographs of Vorotinov alive after the death claim, document said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shirttail\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"shirttail\">(c)2019 the Star Tribune (Minneapolis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"shirttail\">Visit the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) at www.startribune.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"shirttail\">Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/man-who-faked-death-sentenced-to-more-than-three-years-for-life-insurance-claim\">Read the original article at insurancenewsnet.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) A Minnesota man is heading to prison after faking his own death to collect life insurance. A man from Moldova was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}