Insurer and MIBI claim to have uncovered crash fraud ring

Zurich Insurance and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) believe they have uncovered a multimillion-euro Eastern European fraud ring behind fraudulent damages claims arising from staged accidents.

The claim was made in the Circuit Civil Court in a sworn statement by solicitor David Culleton on behalf of Zurich and MIBI, which compensates victims of untraced and uninsured drivers.

Evidence of a major insurance probe into “suspicious multiple claims” was laid before Judge Jacqueline Linnane when she was asked to refer papers to the DPP in a €60,000 personal injury claim by Ivo Janmers, a director of Belgard Motors Ltd.