Pakistani authorities launched an investigation after a woman fraudulently declared herself dead and claimed two life insurance policies worth $ 1.5 million.
According to an official with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the case, Seema Kharbay traveled to the United States in 2008 and 2009 and purchased two life insurance policies in her name.
In 2011, he bribed some local government officials in Pakistan, including a doctor, and obtained a death certificate issued in his name. The document also showed that she had been buried.
The certificate was used by his children to claim two life insurance policy payments worth 1.5 million dollars (approximately 23 million Pakistani rupees), the official said.
Kharbay, after being pronounced dead, traveled overseas at least 10 times from Karachi International Airport, apparently under assumed identities and none of the airlines could detect the fraud.
“He visited about five countries, but every time he returned home,” the official said.
The FIA human trafficking cell has now registered criminal cases against the woman, her son and daughter and some local government officials, including a doctor.
“The US authorities alerted us to this woman and we began to investigate this fraud on a large scale,” the official added.
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