Insurance scammers’ death forger arrested in Canada
Eden Prairie a man who admitted his guilt over an insurance fraud amounting to $ 11.5 million in May and is suspected to have forged his death has been arrested in Canada. Star Tribune announced that Travis Scott Magdalene 34-year-old has been arrested in Winnipeg before Christmas after receiving allegations from a pharmacy employee that he tried to use a fake prescription.
Canadian authorities to search Scott’s apartment in downtown Winnipeg and obtain discovery of $ 80,000 in gold coin, $ 30,000 in currency and Taser stun device, the newspaper reported. Scott just waiting for the sentence after a guilty plea in federal court to defraud Zurich North America by filing false insurance claims for business, Security Management Technologies.
Told the Business Journal at the time that Scott testified lightning damage to a supercomputer in his business in June 2008 and approximately $ 9.5 million will be used for equipment replacement from insurance companies. He also asked for nearly $ 2 million to improve business interruption, according to the indictment.
Before Scott was arrested in Canada, Minnesota authorities to debate what to do with this case after the discovery of an empty kayak on Lake Mille Lacs along with a note from Scott who said that he would conduct himself with the binding of the load and go, the Star Tribune reported.
