“Can you really walk?”… Family who received 180 million won in insurance fraud = South Korea

A family member who lied about being unable to walk due to a serious disability and received hundreds of millions of won in insurance money has been sentenced to prison. According to the Korean Bar Association on the 27th, the Daejeon District Court
Defendant A (54), his daughter Defendant B (30), and son Defendant C (26), who were charged with violating the Special Anti-Fraud Act, were sentenced to 1 year in prison, 10 months in prison, and 8 months in prison, respectively. .
According to his family, defendant C was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) at a hospital in Seoul in March 2016, and after that, he suffered severe damage to both legs and right arm.
They conspired to claim insurance money by lying. Then, using the medical certificate of defendant C issued by the hospital on November 29, 2021, he received 180 million won from two insurance companies.
He was indicted on charges of receiving money (approximately 20.3 million yen). The family said that defendant C has difficulty walking due to the pain, cannot use his right arm, eats with his left hand, and is unable to carry out daily activities.
It turned out that I had lied to the company. Furthermore, although he filed a claim for 1.29 billion won (approximately 145.55 million yen) from three insurance companies, the insurance company reported that he was walking daily at the hospital.
It was discovered by an employee of the company, and the attempt ended in failure. The family had denied committing the crime from beginning to end, but when the police showed them CCTV footage from the area where they lived that showed defendant C's daily activities, they admitted the charges.
. The judge at the Daejeon District Court said, ``Until he saw the video, he had consistently lied and the crime was bad, and he has not returned 160 million won (approximately 18.05 million yen) of the stolen insurance money.'' reason
explained.