According to the police, the criminal activity lasted at least since 2021. It was then that the first person “died” in an alleged road accident in the USA. The suspects, based on forged documents, obtained a death certificate, which they in turn presented to two insurance companies, and on the basis of it, they paid a total of over one million zlotys in compensation under the policies concluded. for life.
– Bank accounts were opened for the closest family members, in this case for the detained 37-year-old son of the detained woman and her mother. In this way, over millions of zlotys were extorted and an attempt was made to withdraw another 800,000 zlotys, but this time it was prevented by employees of one of the banks and police officers from the downtown Operational and Reconnaissance Department – said Sub-Inspector. Robert Szumiata, spokesman for the downtown police.
During the search of one of the apartments, criminal investigators found and seized, among others, a invalidated ID card, an American passport and a driving license of a detained 58-year-old woman, official American stamps, mobile phones, payment cards, powers of attorney for bank accounts and a invalidated ID card of one of the detained men.
The police detained three people involved in this case. – One of them, a 37-year-old man, was arrested at the airport when he arrived from Scandinavia to collect compensation money. The remaining two people, a 58-year-old woman and her partner, who is 5 years older than her, were detained on the same day – said the deputy inspector. Robert Szumiata.
