A Slovenian woman was found guilty of deliberately cutting her hand as part of a scam to obtain insurance. The defendant alleged that the accident happened when cutting branches with a circular saw.
A court in the capital of Ljubljana revealed that Julija Adlesic, 22, had five insurance policies the year before the accident. The woman would receive over a million euros.
Now, Julija has been sentenced to two years in prison and her boyfriend for three years. The young woman and several family members were detained in 2019 after she arrived at the hospital with her hand cut above her wrist.
The court concluded that Julija and her boyfriend had intentionally left the mutilated hand behind, instead of bringing it with them, to ensure that the disability is permanent. However, the authorities recovered it in time to sew it.
Prosecutors said the woman’s boyfriend also did Internet searches on artificial hands in the days before the accident and that this was proof that the mutilation was intentional.
The father of Julija’s boyfriend was also sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence.
Throughout the trial, the woman denied that she intentionally cut her hand. If the fraudulent claim had been successful, the couple would have received more than half a million euros ready, the remainder being paid in monthly installments.
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