He took out life insurance on his brother – after he died

A  conman who tried to claim £600,000 in a life insurance swindle after his brother died from Covid-19 was jailed for three years. Daniel Banete, 30, took out four different life insurance policies in his sibling’s name, following his death in a Romanian hospital in July 2020. Banete provided fake death certificates to the insurance companies, with different dates of death between November 2020 to January 2021, in a bid to claim the cash. But the con came to light…