Taiwan woman caught taking fingerprints from dead man, using them to forge loan agreement
59-year-old with ink pad and paper climbed onto hearse carrying body to copy prints; is handed suspended jail term by court
A woman in Taiwan has been jailed for using the fingerprints of a dead man after approaching his body under the pretence of viewing the remains and forging a promissory note issued by him.
The 59-year-old woman, surnamed Li, was caught red-handed in a funeral centre in Hsinchu, northwestern Taiwan after the dead man’s family called the police as a result of her abnormal behaviour, the news outlet SETN reported.
Li and the man, identified as Peng, previously had debt disputes.
When she heard that Peng died on February 21, she darted to the funeral home hours later, bringing a false mortgage document and a promissory note of NT$8.5 million (US$280,000).
She told the funeral workers that she was a close friend of Peng and wanted to pay her respects.