A BEAUTIFUL young Russian woman and her mother, a wrong corpse and $1.2 million worth of life insurance are all pieces of a legal puzzle hinging on the claim that Sydney security guard Vladimir Safronov is actually a dead man walking.
His friend Sergey Gerasimov claims Safronov, 46, died six months after returning home to Russia but the companies that insured his life for $1.2 million suspect "fraud".
Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
The District Court has been asked to decide if Mr Safronov is dead as Mr Gerasimov, executor of his friend's estate, has claimed the $400,000 due on each of the three life insurance policies.
Allianz, Suncorp Life and OnePath Life are refusing to pay up, disputing that the Bondi security guard was the man found dead on a street in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov in March 2010.
A Ukrainian death certificate provided to the court by Mr Gerasimov states the Russian-born Australian national died of heart disease and his body was cremated.
Mr Safronov's body was allegedly identified by Oleg Zhirnoklev, who told the morgue at Kharkov he was a friend of Mr Safronov, the court was told.
Facebook image of Daria Chuprakova. Source: Facebook
But investigations by the insurers uncovered a photograph of the corpse identified as Mr Safronov which does not match his passport photograph, has the wrong height and the wrong date of birth.
"In light of the inconsistencies … (insurers) formed the view that the deceased the subject of the autopsy was not that of Mr Safronov and that there was no evidence that Mr Safronov was deceased," court documents state.
Mr Gerasimov has agreed the dead man in the photo was not Mr Safronov but maintained the death certificate "confirmed unequivocally that Mr Safronov had died", documents show.
Vladimir Safronov's death certificate. Source: Supplied
Mr Zhirnoklev is one of the beneficiaries of Mr Safronov's estate, along with Mr Gerasimov, Daria Chuprakova, her mother Elena Chuprakova and another two people. Mr Safronov, who was single, took out the life policies in 2007.
The insurance companies are seeking to have the NSW registration of Mr Safronov's death overturned.
The case is expected to be heard in the District Court later this year.
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