Sep 3, 2008

Insurance scam exposed when dead man keeps Dr appointment

Dead men don’t usually keep appointments with their physicions.

As a dead man, Ahmad Akhtary shouldn't have needed a doctor's appointment.

Akhtary's checkup, six months after he allegedly died in Afghanistan, scuttled his ex-wife's attempt to collect 300,000 pounds (US$550,000) on a life insurance policy.

At a court hearing last week in Gloucester, a judge sentenced 34-year-old Akhtary to 60 hours of community service and his former wife, Anne Akhtary, to 40 hours of community service but suspended prison sentences of nine months each.

The judge said they received light sentences because they were stupid. Well, actually the judge said “the couple had been less than sophisticated in their attempt and that no money had been lost.”

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