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marinij.com: A California developer has been arrested on suspicion of filing duplicate claims with two insurers for the same damage after a 2008 fire at his Reno luxury condominium project. Bijan Madjlessi was arrested at his office in San Rafael, Calif., and booked into the Marin County, Calif., Jail on a charge of felony insurance fraud. He was released after posting a $750,000 bond. He’s accused of buying insurance policies from both Fireman’s Fund and Travelers Casualty and Insurance Co., then filing overlapping claims with both companies after the fire at Belvedere Towers. Reno fire investigators described the July 29, 2008, blaze at the former Sundowner hotel-casino as arson, but no charges were filed. Madjlessi is accused of defrauding the insurers of $1.4 million, according to an affidavit signed by Deputy District Attorney Tom McCallister. It’s one of the larger cases of double-dipping insurance fraud in California, said Dave Althausen, spokesman for the California Insurance Department >>>