Niece fakes aunt’s death, gets eight to ten years in jail
THE woman who was arrested and charged in court for defrauding the Social Security System (SSS) by faking the death of her aunt, was sentenced to serve eight to ten years in jail by a Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Dagupan City.
Marilou V. Calado was found guilty of estafa through falsification of death certificate of her aunt, barangay certification, and funeral parlor receipt and collected the P20,000 SSS funeral benefit in 2004.
According to SSS Assistant Vice-President Renato S. Cuisia said RTC Branch 40 Judge Jovito Samadan, court found Callado guilty for violating Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code and ordered ordered to serve an imprisonment of eight years and one day up to ten years, eight months and one day, and to return the P20,000 funeral grant with interest of six percent per annum.
Investigation showed Calado obtained death certificate bearing the name of her aunt, Pilar M. Valdez, from the Local Civil Registrar in Calasiao after she fabricated a story about her aunt’s death.
Using the death certificate, Calado then secured from the office of the barangay captain a certification attesting that a wake was held in the area. She also managed to obtain a receipt from a local funeral parlor showing that she shouldered the burial expenses of her aunt.
The falsification was discovered after Valdez went to SSS Dagupan City in June 2005 to apply for a biometric SSS identification card.
Calado had jumped bail and an alias warrant ordering her immediate arrest was already issued. (SSS_PIO)
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