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A Sri Lankan in Singapore who allegedly faked his own death 20 years ago was charged on Wednesday with conspiracy to cheat three insurance companies into paying out more than $300,000 in claims, the ?Straits Times? said.

S. Gandaruban, 59, is accused of conspiring with his younger brother, Moganaruban Subramaniam, and wife Renuga Sinnaduray to cheat the firms between February 1988 and May 5, 1989.

Both Mr Moganaruban, 56, a prominent Ceylon Tamil community leader, and Renuga have been dealt with in the scam.

Mr Moganaruban's 16-month sentence was increased by another 10 months after he appealed to the High Court in 2005. Renuga was jailed for 12 months in 2004.

Gandaruban, together with his co-conspirators, is said to have deceived Insurance Corporation of Singapore into paying out $98,295 to his wife on a whole life insurance policy on May 5, 1989.

He is also accused of deceiving NTUC Income into paying out his special endowment plan of $32,214, and Asia Life Assurance Society into paying $200,832 to his wife, now 50.

A fourth charge states that he instigated his wife to lie to a commissioner of oaths at the Supreme Court on August 2, 1988 that he died intestate.

Gandaruban abandoned his family and fled to Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape creditors after his car rental business collapsed.

A few months later, he arranged for a death certificate to be sent to Singapore stating that he had been killed during a gun fight between government soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels.

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