Man in 60s Sentenced to Prison for Falsifying Past Documents 43 Times and Siphoning Over 100 Million Won in Insurance Payouts

A man in his 60s who collected more than 120 million won in insurance payouts by altering medical certificates issued during past hospitalization treatments has been sentenced to prison.

Chuncheon District Court Judge Park Dong-wook, presiding over Criminal Division 3, announced on the 13th that he sentenced A, 62, to one year in prison on charges of violating the Special Act on the Prevention of Insurance Fraud, forging private documents, and uttering forged private documents.

A was put on trial on charges of fabricating documents as if he had been hospitalized even though he did not receive actual inpatient treatment from November 2023 to February of this year, pocketing a total of over 120 million won across 43 instances from insurance companies.

According to the indictment, A was diagnosed with lung cancer in June 2022 and received inpatient treatment at a clinic in Songpa-gu, Seoul, from August to September of the same year.

Even though he did not receive subsequent inpatient treatment at the clinic, he scanned documents he had been issued and kept at the time, saved them on his computer, and altered 211 documents by modifying the document titles, hospitalization periods, and treatment details.

After printing the documents created in this manner, he photographed them with his smartphone camera and uploaded them to insurance company applications to claim insurance money.

Judge Park pointed out that considering the methods and details of the crime, the nature of the offense is severe, the duration and frequency of the crimes are high, and the amount defrauded is also large.

The judge further explained the reasoning for the prison sentence, noting that the defendant failed to restore the damage inflicted on the victims and did not reach a settlement.

However, Judge Park decided not to place A under court custody, taking into consideration his health condition.

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