Daniel Banete took out four different life insurance policies in his brother's name after his death.
Daniel Banete took out the policies between 16 and 21 July 2020, but his brother had passed away in hospital on 8 July, City of London Police said
Daniel Banete, of Lillington Road, Coventry, took out four different life insurance policies in his brother's name, after he died in Romania in 2020.Banete was jailed for three years after previously admitting fraud charges at Warwick Crown Court. Death certificates he provided to the insurance companies contained different dates of death between November 2020 and January 2021.The scam came to light after Aviva, one of the insurers Banete had taken out a policy with, arranged for a Romanian member of staff to speak to the hospital Banete's brother died at and they confirmed the correct date of death, police added.
And a file of fake death certificates was also found, which showed a date of death as 10 November 2020, and it was these documents that were sent to the insurers when the claims were made.
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