OREANDA-NEWS. On 03 August 2009 was announced, that in Samara, a group of persons charged with attempted major fraud was convicted.  

In 2007, the malefactors bought on credit an expensive car,  Lexus GS 300, and insured it in the branch of Ingosstrakh IJSC in Samara. In 2008, the owner and his accomplices took the car to Kazakhstan without the documents in order to sell it on the general power of attorney.  There, the car was given to unknown persons, after which the malefactor returned to the territory of Russia with the keys and the documents. Two days later the owner informed about  the car theft in one of the districts in Samara. Along with the documents about the theft, the insurer received original documents and two sets of keys.  However, the story of the owner made the employees of the Samara branch of Ingosstrakh feel suspicious. The materials about the claim were transferred to the Information Analysis and Protection Department of Ingosstrakh IJSC. The analysis of the documents revealed contradictions in the story of the insured person. As a result of the investigation undertaken together with the unit 3KM  of the Main Internal Affairs Department of the Samara region, it was found out that the car left the Russian Federation. This allowed to cancel compensation and initiate criminal proceedings on charges of fraud and misrepresentation.

The investigation into this criminal case lasted almost one year and yielded firm evidence. The court proceedings lasted for almost three months and delivered the verdict of guilty. The minimum term of imprisonment for the criminals was 5 years. 

Ingosstrakh IJSC fights against fraud on a permanent basis. The company introduced an electronic system that analyses risks and defines if a specific insured event can be a case of fraud.  Such cases are processed in a special mode that helps to efficiently identify fraud and not to transfer costs to bona fide clients.