insurance fraud

Singapore, April 11 An Indian-origin man in Singapore was sentenced to seven weeks in jail for forging his clients' bank statements so that the insurance policies he was selling to them could take effect.Vijendren Tanapal, 38, pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery involving two Japanese...

Faridabad, April 9 The Faridabad police said on Thursday that they had busted the operations of a fake call centre and arrested six people for allegedly defrauding people by offering a bonus on an insurance policy.The call centre was being operated from a rented accommodation in Tilak Nagar...

London, April 8 An Indian-origin former police officer has pleaded guilty to his role in a "crash for cash" scheme, involving fraudulent personal injury claims following deliberate vehicle crashes in the UK.Kuldip Singh, 42, was a Metropolitan Police officer when he became involved with a...

New Delhi, April 7 The CBI has arrested a manager and an investigator of National Insurance Company Limited in a bribery case involving an amount of more than Rs 2.6 lakh, officials said on Tuesday.The accused is alleged to have demanded an undue advantage of Rs 3 lakh from the complainant in...

Rampur (UP), April 7 A man and two of his associates here were arrested for allegedly killing his police officer wife and their three-year-old son to claim insurance money and other benefits worth Rs 2 crore, and attempting to pass off the crime as a road accident, police said on Tuesday.The...

Kathmandu, April 6 – The Nepali government announced a series of immediate and long-term measures on Monday to strengthen transparency, accountability, and governance in the country's mountain rescue operations, amid allegations that fake rescue missions for climbers have been conducted to...

Kathmandu, April 3 – The mountaineering community in Nepal has expressed serious concerns over a $20 million insurance scam, even as police dismissed media reports on Friday alleging that some foreign tourists were deliberately given poisonous food to facilitate fraudulent rescue operations.As...

Lucknow, April 1 – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Sameer Joshi, a proclaimed offender, in connection with a financial fraud case linked to the Life Insurance Corporation of India, officials said on Wednesday.According to officials, the CBI had registered the case on...

Thane, March 17 A 42-year-old insurance consultant from Mumbra in the Thane district of Maharashtra was allegedly cheated of over Rs 71 lakh by cyber fraudsters who lured him into investing in cryptocurrency trading, police said on Tuesday.A case has been registered against six individuals at...

New Delhi, March 11 A former Indian Army soldier, along with two others, has been booked for making a fraudulent death claim to secure insurance benefits worth Rs 3 lakh from the Army Group Insurance Fund.According to an FIR registered on March 6, the case pertains to a claim made in 2011...

Mumbai, March 10 Police have arrested nine people, including a government medical officer and four police officers, for allegedly conspiring to obtain a Rs 50 lakh insurance claim from a company by falsely claiming that a man died in a road accident in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, officials...

Gurugram, February 19 Police have arrested three employees of a private hospital in the New Palam Vihar area here for allegedly submitting fraudulent insurance claims using forged documents, officials said on Thursday.The arrests were made after a joint raid by the police and the health...

Amethi, February 17 Police have registered an FIR after a case of fraud involving ₹42 lakh came to light in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.According to police, Ram Milan, a resident of Byoremahu village under the Shukul Bazar police station limits, filed a...

Jaipur, February 16 – Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena said in the Assembly on Monday that serious irregularities by insurance companies have come to light under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) in several districts of the state. He assured the House that these...

Jaipur, February 16 Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Kirodi Lal Meena said on Monday that serious irregularities by insurance companies have come to light in several districts under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, and assured the Assembly that the matter would be investigated by the Special...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), February 12 A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly defrauding a person of more than Rs 2.37 lakh through a fake insurance call, police said on Thursday.According to authorities, the complainant, a resident of Puttur, recently received repeated calls from an...