JACKSONVILLE, Florida – A Jacksonville businessman reported dead two years ago in Venezuela was arrested in North Carolina on alleged fraud charges after his life insurance companies filed a lawsuit alleging he was alive and they shouldn’t be making payments.
Saturday’s arrest of 62-year-old Jose Lantigua ends two years of speculation about whether the former furniture store owner had faked an illness in 2013 while vacationing in Venezuela, leaving his business millions of dollars in debt.
His life insurance companies thought they were being swindled and launched an investigation saying the businessman was not dead after two lenders filed claims.
Officials stopped a car Lantigua was driving in with his wife in Buncombe County, North Carolina. More
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