Man jailed for faking his death
A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim $243,600 in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday. Gandaruban Subramaniam fled Singapore more than 20 years ago —harassed by creditors and illegal money lenders since the failure of his car rental business — and moved to London to work as a street sweeper. The 60-year old eventually settled in Sri Lanka where he managed to obtain a death certificate stating he had been killed in a shootout between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels, allowing his family to claim on his insurance policies. But he returned to Singapore a number of times using a fake Sri Lankan passport and also remarried his wife in Sri Lanka in 1994 and fathered a son, their fourth child, two years later. The couple has since divorced.
-Agencies