They say money is the root of all evil and the case of a Vietnamese woman who paid her friend to chop off her foot and a section of her arm as part of an insurance scam proves just that.
According to Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre, Ly Thi N, 30, planned a ruse which involved her getting involved in a fake fatal train crash in order to claim more than $150,000 from her health insurance company.
Following 3 months of investigation, the police uncovered her plan which included her paying a friend, named as Doan Van D, $2,200 (N863,200) to cut off her limbs in May.
Her friend then called an ambulance and pretended to have found her injured on a railway in Hanoi after which the woman was taken to the hospital where doctors reportedly said said her limbs would be impossible to be re-attached.
“N hired D to cut her hand and foot, then continued to have him report false information to the police,” Bac Tu Liem police chief, Nguyen Thanh Tung, told Vietnamese newspaper on Tuesday.
He further said, “The greatest shame is that N, instead of claiming the money, has suffered a huge loss by losing both her hand and foot. Her case sends a warning that people should not attempt insurance fraud at the expense of their own health.”
The question that comes to mind is; what need is so important that this woman could do such dastardly thing to herself?
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