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A funeral parlour owner and a woman were arrested near Umbilo,in Durban, after the two used a corpse to fraudulently claim life insurance.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Col Vincent Mdunge says the 35-year old woman apparently made up a birth certificate of a fictional person.
He says she then took out life insurance policies, collectively worth R950,000, in this person's name with three different companies. She subsequently paid a number of monthly premiums.
Mdunge says she approached a funeral parlour owner, and asked him to 'borrow' her a female body from his mortuary, so that the body could be presented to the doctor for certification of death.
