Former Schalke footballer who faked his death sentenced to 4 years in prison

One of football’s craziest stories is over. Former Schalke footballer Hiannick Kamba, who faked his death, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Kamba came through Schalke’s youth academy, then moved to Germany’s lower leagues. In 2016, reports came out that Kamba had died in a car crash in Congo.

The club VfB Huls, where Kamba was playing at the time, released the following statement::

“He represented the values of our club like few others. His passing will leave a big hole in all of us. Hiannick’s departure is undoubtedly a great sporting loss for us, but we will especially miss him as a person,” the club announced the sad news at the time.

But the administrators of the club’s website composed the sad sentences in vain. Two years later in 2018, Kamba was spotted at the German embassy in Kinshasa to announce that he was alive and well. He claimed that his friends had left him without his documents, money and mobile phone at a wild party in Congo in 2016.

But the whole situation has a different explanation. The Daily Mail has come forward with information that Kamb’s wife Christina Von G tried to collect a £3.36 million life insurance policy after his death. That claim was rejected, so Von G settled for withdrawing £1 million.

Kamba has since returned to Germany and was spotted working as a chemical technician for an energy supplier in the Ruhr area in 2019.

Investigators immediately went to work, with Kamba claiming he had no idea of his wife’s actions.

However, he and Von G were found guilty of fraud and face 46 months in prison. Their plan to cash in on the player’s death certainly didn’t go as planned.

Source: Give Me Sport