A resident of Irkutsk stole his own car to get insurance

A 28 year old Irkutsk resident devised a clever scheme to get an insurance payout. He reported his Toyota Camry stolen, then received 1.2 million rubles. Later it was found he had arranged the cars disappearance himself and even bought a burned car of the same make and color in Krasnoyarsk to pass it off as his own. The suspect was detained while trying to move parts between the cars, and now faces arrest on fraud and false report charges.

The real scam, devised to make some extra money, was invented by a 28-year-old local resident. In May 2015, he reported to the police that during the night his Toyota Camry had been stolen right from the yard on Rosa Luxemburg Street. It was never possible to find the vehicle in the immediate aftermath or detain the thieves.
Several months later, the car was found. At one of the car washes belonging to its owner on Yaroslavsky Street. As it turned out, the man had stolen the car from himself, waited for the insurance payout of 1.2 million rubles, and then bought a burned-out car of the same make and color in Krasnoyarsk and transported it to Irkutsk. The enterprising man was caught at the moment when he was transferring parts of the engine and body from the supposedly stolen Camry to the burned-out one, so that it would be confirmed that it was indeed his car that had been stolen and burned.
- The man is accused under the articles “Fraud in the sphere of lending” and “Knowingly false report,” - the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region reported. – Now he faces arrest.