They have either discovered the oldest person in the world or the longest-running pension fraud.
Pension fraud, Japan had a bunch of these cases as well. A lot ended up being corpses with a mailing address. Keep that check a coming.
“They have either discovered the oldest person in the world or the longest-running pension fraud.”
I remember either a yogurt or cereal commercial some years ago featuring some old people from a part of the Soviet Union. Supposedly the average age was around 100 and people in the area lived well beyond 110 years.
A few years later the truth was known.
No one in those remote villages kept records.
Births and deaths were only recorded in family bibles or by the family patriarch/matriarch.
Since bibles were banned in the USSR there was no way to prove those people’s ages
Most of them lied in order to get their Soviet pension.
The people in the commercial were in their 60’s-70’s.