A Cranberry Township man has been charged by the Attorney General Office for alleged home insurance fraud that took place last year.
The insurance claim started in 2021 when 49-year-old Ravindra Veramachanani filed a claim that his refrigerator leaked and damaged his hard wood floors.
Veramachanani was paid $5,175 to repair his home but according to charging documents he never paid the contractor for the repairs. Then in 2025 a claim was filed that the same area was damaged by rainwater from a sliding back door. An insurance payment of $3,823 was then made to Veramachanani for the second claim.
Investigators would suspect that the floor was never repaired from the first claim and meta data was used to see that the contractor was never paid and repairs were never made to the floor.
Charges against Veramachanani are fraudulent insurance claim, theft by deception, and forgery.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for December 11.