{"id":408952,"date":"2015-01-15T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=408952"},"modified":"2015-01-15T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:28:01","slug":"fbi-a-moldovan-couple-faked-a-death-to-get-2-million-from-the-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/fbi-a-moldovan-couple-faked-a-death-to-get-2-million-from-the-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI: A Moldovan couple faked a death to get $2 million from the insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A Moldovan woman and her son are being accused in Minnesota, US, for faking the death of his husband and getting $2 million from the insurance company.<\/p>\n

Irina Vorotinov and her son, Alkon Vorotinov, were charged on Tuesday, 13 of January, in federal court of St.Paul- the presumed widow with mail fraud and her son with knowing the actual commission of a felony and concealing a crime.<\/p>\n

According to FBI, Irina Vorotinov, had got out of Minneapolis, Maple Grove and Plymouth, more than $2 million from a life insurance claim, after her husband, Igor Vorotinov, reportedly died.<\/p>\n

That claim- which included a badly putrefied body, found lying on the side of a rural Moldovan village road- was false, prosecutors now say.<\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, Mutual of Omaha, the insurance company that paid Vorotinov’s claim, hired a private firm to investigate the 2011 death. The investigation office interviewed the Moldovan policeman who found the supposed body of Igor Vorotinov. The officer received an anonymous emergency call, saying that a dead body was at the entrance of Cojusna village in Moldova. The officer said he found the body, the passport and the hotel cards on the side of the road between two bushes and determined there were no signs of violence, so he then called his son to help him take it to a morgue.<\/p>\n

Neither the police officer nor the morgue took pictures of the body, because neither authority “had access to a camera,” the complaint stated.<\/p>\n

Irina Vorotinov traveled to Moldova from the Twin Cities, identified the body as her husband and ordered it cremated in Ukraine. She then took the ashes back home to Minnesota. In March 2012, she received a check from Mutual of Omaha for $2,048,414.09 in life insurance proceeds.<\/p>\n

More than a year later, in June 2013, the FBI received a tip from an anonymous source in Moldova that Igor Vorotinov was not in his widow’s urn.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined that Irina and Alkon Vorotinov had transferred $1.5 million of the insurance claim to accounts in Switzerland and Moldova in the same month the funds were awarded to them.<\/p>\n

In November 2013, customs officials of the Detroit airport stopped Alkon Vorotinov and his fiance, on their way\u00a0from Moldova to Minneapolis, and took their laptops.<\/p>\n

The following month, investigators discovered digital photographs of Igor taken in spring 2013, “in which Igor is very much alive.”\u00a0Metadata from the digital photos showed they were taken in 2013, and the camera used to take them was not available for purchase until June 2012, more than nine months after Igor purportedly died.<\/p>\n

An FBI investigator added in the complaint: “I have personal knowledge that the person depicted in the photographs is Igor because I met Igor in connection with a prior investigation of Irina and the person depicted in both photographs is Igor.”<\/p>\n

The images also matched Igor Vorotinov’s driver’s license photo and were identified by “a cooperating individual who has known Igor for many years,” the complaint stated.<\/p>\n

The case is still investigated because the FBI officers think that they can get to Igor, the supposed dead, who is reportedly living in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Source: Twin Cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>A Moldovan woman and her son are being accused in Minnesota, US, for faking the death of his husband and getting $2 million from the insurance company. Irina Vorotinov and her son, Alkon Vorotinov, were charged on Tuesday, 13 of January, in federal court of St.Paul- the presumed widow with mail fraud and her son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

A Moldovan woman and her son are being accused in Minnesota, US, for faking the death of his husband and getting $2 million from the insurance company.<\/p>\n

Irina Vorotinov and her son, Alkon Vorotinov, were charged on Tuesday, 13 of January, in federal court of St.Paul- the presumed widow with mail fraud and her son with knowing the actual commission of a felony and concealing a crime.<\/p>\n

According to FBI, Irina Vorotinov, had got out of Minneapolis, Maple Grove and Plymouth, more than $2 million from a life insurance claim, after her husband, Igor Vorotinov, reportedly died.<\/p>\n

That claim- which included a badly putrefied body, found lying on the side of a rural Moldovan village road- was false, prosecutors now say.<\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, Mutual of Omaha, the insurance company that paid Vorotinov’s claim, hired a private firm to investigate the 2011 death. The investigation office interviewed the Moldovan policeman who found the supposed body of Igor Vorotinov. The officer received an anonymous emergency call, saying that a dead body was at the entrance of Cojusna village in Moldova. The officer said he found the body, the passport and the hotel cards on the side of the road between two bushes and determined there were no signs of violence, so he then called his son to help him take it to a morgue.<\/p>\n

Neither the police officer nor the morgue took pictures of the body, because neither authority “had access to a camera,” the complaint stated.<\/p>\n

Irina Vorotinov traveled to Moldova from the Twin Cities, identified the body as her husband and ordered it cremated in Ukraine. She then took the ashes back home to Minnesota. In March 2012, she received a check from Mutual of Omaha for $2,048,414.09 in life insurance proceeds.<\/p>\n

More than a year later, in June 2013, the FBI received a tip from an anonymous source in Moldova that Igor Vorotinov was not in his widow’s urn.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined that Irina and Alkon Vorotinov had transferred $1.5 million of the insurance claim to accounts in Switzerland and Moldova in the same month the funds were awarded to them.<\/p>\n

In November 2013, customs officials of the Detroit airport stopped Alkon Vorotinov and his fiance, on their way\u00a0from Moldova to Minneapolis, and took their laptops.<\/p>\n

The following month, investigators discovered digital photographs of Igor taken in spring 2013, “in which Igor is very much alive.”\u00a0Metadata from the digital photos showed they were taken in 2013, and the camera used to take them was not available for purchase until June 2012, more than nine months after Igor purportedly died.<\/p>\n

An FBI investigator added in the complaint: “I have personal knowledge that the person depicted in the photographs is Igor because I met Igor in connection with a prior investigation of Irina and the person depicted in both photographs is Igor.”<\/p>\n

The images also matched Igor Vorotinov’s driver’s license photo and were identified by “a cooperating individual who has known Igor for many years,” the complaint stated.<\/p>\n

The case is still investigated because the FBI officers think that they can get to Igor, the supposed dead, who is reportedly living in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Source: Twin Cities<\/a><\/p>\n

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