Founded in 1991, Life Partners Holdings, Inc. operated as a buyer and reseller of life insurance policies on the secondary market, a business known as life settlements. The company would purchase policies from individuals (typically elderly or terminally ill) and then sell fractional interests in these policies to investors, who would receive a return upon the death of the original policyholder. However, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the company and its executives with massive fraud for systematically underestimating the life expectancies of the insured individuals, which were the key determinant of an investment's profitability. This led to a large-scale Ponzi scheme where new investor funds were required to pay premiums on older policies. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015, which was later converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation, and its assets were sold off to pay back defrauded investors.

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Cyprus