A bizarre incident from Costa Rica, a country in Central America has stirred the headlines where a man found that the government had declared him dead. According to a report published in the Daily Star, a man named Nick Fatouros, 34, discovered this incident by mail upon returning from a holiday of 2 years.
Nick was surprised to find out that he had been legally declared dead and the Ministry of Justice had been trying to collect on a speeding ticket, using Nick’s estate as collateral. A speeding ticket indicates a fine that the driver will have to pay if he or she is driving too fast. The police had been trying to collect this speeding ticket from Nick since 2022 but couldn’t since he was on a lengthy trip. Now, the 34-year-old man has been declared dead in his absence and is fighting to prove that he is alive.
In an interaction with Montreal News, Nick said,” If she (his mother) would open this and I was off on my travels, God forbid, you know, she would say, what’s going on? It’s very hard to get through.” The Costa Rica citizen also said that it is proving to be a very hard fight to prove that he is alive. His lawyer, William Korbatly, added, “Sometimes, it happens to have some mistakes like this, but it’s rare. As per William, the decision to declare Nick dead legally will affect everything, i.e.- ranging from his traffic ticket to succession, and every aspect of his life.”
In a positive turn of events, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Justice has since confirmed that “human error” played a part in the sudden pronounced demise of Nick. The spokesperson also apologised to Nick for the inconvenience caused by this decision. The Ministry stated that the Collector of Fines had erroneously used a letter template to correspond with an estate while sending the mail to Nick. According to the ministry, the collector should have used the one normally used to communicate with a defendant instead. They apologised for the situation and said an appropriate follow-up would be made with the citizen.
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