Gandaruban Subramaniam fled Singapore in 1987 after the failure of his car rental business in order to get away from creditors and illegal money lenders. In order to do so, he faked his death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka, even obtaining a false death certificate, allowing his family to receive almost $250,000 in insurance money.
Using a fake Sri Lankan passport, Subramaniam was able to return to Singapore numerous times over the years, even remarrying his "widow" in Sri Lanka in 1994 and fathering a son — their fourth child — two years later.
Subramaniam was finally arrested in 2007 while trying to enter Singapore using a fake passport.