India, Dec. 24 -- A woman from Vietnam has been arrested five years after she was officially declared dead, exposing an elaborate insurance fraud through which she gained more than VND1.2 billion (around Rs.40 lakh).

Authorities in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa Province said the case came to light on December 17, when a woman identifying herself as Nguyen Thi Thu approached the Quang Trung Ward People's Committee seeking to annul her death registration. Officials were startled to find that a person with the same name and address had been legally declared dead in June 2020.

According to a report in VN Express, ward-level police launched verification procedures and soon confirmed that the applicant was the same individual whose death had been offic...