Two Muscovites try to kill system administrator in insurance scam, end up behind bars

A Yoshkar-Ola court has jailed two Muscovites for attempted insurance fraud involving a plot to kill a person. One of the accomplices took out a EUR 1 million insurance policy, after which they hired a student from the Republic of Mari-El to work as a system administrator in Moscow. The criminals plotted to kill and burn the system administrator in a staged car accident and pass his corpse off as the body of the insured accomplice. Yet the student was lucky to survive, exposing the criminals. The foiled scam resulted in jail sentences of 13 and 12 years for the two accomplices and 150,000 rubles in moral damages to be paid to the victim.