A former Twin Cities man accused of faking his demise in an effort to accumulate $2 million in life insurance coverage pleaded responsible Friday in federal court docket in Minneapolis, in line with the U.S. lawyer's workplace.
Igor Vorotinov, 54, previously of Maple Grove, was convicted of 1 depend of mail fraud by U.S. District Decide Patrick Schiltz. His sentencing is ready for July 29.
Vorotinov took out an insurance coverage coverage with Mutual of Omaha in 2010 and named his ex-wife, Irina Vorotinov, as his main beneficiary.
An auto mechanic and seller by commerce, Vorotinov then left Minnesota for Moldova, a former Soviet republic in Jap Europe. Seven months later, Irina Vorotinov was notified decomposed physique of a person believed to be her ex-husband -- in possession of his passport and different ID -- was discovered close to the village of Cojusna.
The girl recognized the physique as her ex-husband, had him cremated in Moldova, took the urn again to Minnesota, interred him at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis and submitted the demise certificates to the insurance coverage firm, which despatched her a $2 million test in 2012.
Igor Vorotinov modified his identify to Nikoly Patoka and moved to Transnistria, a small Russian-controlled area of Moldova, the place he lived till 2018.
Irina Vorotinov recruited a 3rd celebration to open an account at a neighborhood department of U.S. Financial institution, the place she deposited the test. She then had the third celebration switch $1.5 million to a different account on the identical financial institution in her son's identify, Alkon Vorotinov. Between March 2012 and January 2015, greater than $1.5 million of the life insurance coverage cash was transferred to accounts in Switzerland and Moldova.
In 2013, an unidentified tipster informed the FBI concerning the ruse. When Alkon Vorotinov returned to the U.S. from a visit to Moldova, Customs and Border Safety brokers in Detroit stopped him and confiscated his laptop computer. The laptop computer contained latest images of Igor Vorotinov, proving that he was alive. He was extradited to the U.S. in 2018.
In Could 2016, Irina Vorotinov pleaded responsible to 1 depend of mail fraud and one depend of partaking in a financial transaction in criminally derived property. She was sentenced to 37 months in federal jail in November 2016.
Alkon Vorotinov pleaded responsible in March 2015 to a felony cost. He acquired three years of probation and was required to pay restitution for the insurance coverage payout.
The case is the results of an investigation carried out by the FBI and the Inside Income Service.
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