Taiwan woman hides centenarian father’s corpse at home, withdraws his military pension for years
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Police in Taiwan have accused a woman of hiding her dead centenarian father’s body at her home for years to claim his pension benefits.
The unidentified woman from the island’s southern city of Kaohsiung reportedly lived with her father for more than 50 years and her mother had passed away before her husband.
Police suspicions were first raised in November last year when she was fined NT$60,000 (US$1,800) because she did not allow health authorities inside her home to spray the house with dengue-prevention chemicals.
The persistent refusal to allow government officials inside the home set off alarm bells for the authorities.
Officers visited the woman and questioned her about the whereabouts of her elderly father, and she initially claimed he was at a nursing home.
When the police pressed her, she changed her story and said the man had been taken to the mainland by her brother.