Boyfriend Fakes Will, Wedding Certificate in Desperate Bid to Swindle Late Girlfriend’s £500,000 Estate
In a chilling tale of betrayal, greed, and forgery that has shocked legal circles in London, a heartbroken family has triumphed over a duplicitous boyfriend who callously attempted to hijack the £500,000 estate of his late partner, Kassy Sinar, a 46-year-old boss of a thriving London cleaning company who succumbed to breast cancer in 2022.
Ms Sinar, originally from Cyprus and a devoted mother, had meticulously placed her hard-earned fortune in a trust for her 16-year-old daughter, Jocey, ensuring her child’s future amid her terminal illness; yet, her then-boyfriend, Cengiz Arif, a man she had trusted in her final days, embarked on a brazen scheme to upend her wishes by fabricating a 2023 will in his favour and falsifying a 2006 marriage certificate from Cyprus to pose as her legal spouse, even going to the extreme of barring her grieving family from her funeral in a display of heartless control.
This sordid plot unravelled dramatically in the High Court, where Chief Master Karen Shuman, in a landmark ruling, branded both documents as blatant forgeries, upheld Ms Sinar’s authentic 2022 will, and slapped Mr Arif with a staggering £206,000 legal costs order, delivering poetic justice to a family already shattered by loss.
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The saga of deceit began in the shadow of Ms Sinar’s agonising battle with breast cancer, a fight she waged with remarkable resilience while building her cleaning business from the ground up in the bustling heart of London, where her entrepreneurial spirit had amassed a £500,000 estate reflective of years of toil and sacrifice for her young daughter, Jocey, whose tender age of 16 at the time of her mother’s passing made her particularly vulnerable to such predatory machinations.
Mr Arif, who had positioned himself as a pillar of support during her illness, revealed his true colours in her final weeks by abandoning her on what was effectively her deathbed, jetting off to Cyprus for a leisurely two-week holiday, leaving Ms Sinar to face her mortality alone without even the pretence of companionship, a callous act that her brother, Ernest Sinar, now Jocey’s legal guardian and fierce protector, later highlighted as emblematic of the toxic undercurrents in their relationship.
Upon her death, Mr Arif wasted no time in launching his audacious claim on the estate, producing a suspiciously recent 2023 will that magically named him as the primary beneficiary and a yellowed 2006 marriage certificate purporting to legitimise his spousal rights under Cypriot law, documents that he brazenly wielded to exclude the family entirely, culminating in his shocking decision to ban them from her funeral, a move that not only deepened their grief but ignited Ernest’s resolve to seek justice through the courts.
High Court Chief Master Karen Shuman, presiding over the meticulously argued case, delivered a scathing verdict that peeled back the layers of Mr Arif’s deception, declaring with unassailable certainty based on overwhelming evidence that “the will and marriage certificate were forged,” thereby affirming the validity of Ms Sinar’s 2022 will which had rightfully safeguarded her daughter’s inheritance.
In her detailed judgment, the judge painted a damning portrait of the relationship as “an unhappy, toxic and abusive” marred by “evidence of physical and emotional abuse,” underscoring how Mr Arif’s actions extended far beyond financial opportunism into realms of profound cruelty, particularly his abandonment during her last weeks when she lay vulnerable and dying.
“In her last weeks of life, he left her to travel to Cyprus for at least two weeks,” Shuman noted pointedly, before driving the final nail into his defence: “She was never married to Cengiz, therefore he has adduced to the court a forged document. Cengiz produced in these proceedings a false document. He was never married to Kassy. I’m satisfied that the marriage certificate is a forged document.”
This resounding judicial rebuke not only preserved Jocey’s rightful inheritance but also served as a stark warning against those who would prey on the bereaved, with Mr Arif now burdened by £206,000 in costs that underscore the high price of such perfidy.
As Ernest Sinar steps into his role as guardian with renewed determination to honour his sister’s legacy, this case stands as a testament to the resilience of family bonds against the machinations of greed, reminding all that the courts remain a bulwark for the vulnerable in the face of forgery and familial sabotage.
