The Spanish police announced this Monday the arrest of the owners and two workers from a funeral home in Valencia (east) who illegally sold corpses – generally those of people without family– to universities for 1,200 euros each (almost 1,300 dollars).
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In addition, the four detained suspects – Spanish and male – They helped universities get rid of corpses already studied, cremating them or distributing their dismembered remains in coffins of other people who were to be cremated regularly.
The suspects “falsified documentation to be able to remove the bodies from hospitals and residences to later sell them to universities for study for 1,200 euros per corpse,” the National Police explained in a statement.
At least, the suspects trafficked eleven corpses, according to the police statement.
“They billed 5,040 euros to a university for carrying out 11 cremations of bodies, once they had been studied, which were not reflected in the invoices issued by any of the incinerators. that operate in the city,” the statement added.
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The investigations began at the beginning of 2023, when investigators verified how two funeral home workers, After falsifying documents, they would have seized a body that was in the hospital morgue and they would have transferred him to a university for study, instead of burying him.
The deceased had to be buried in his town of residence in a charity funeral paid for by the city council.but it was sold to be studied without anyone's consent.
The suspects “were looking for deceased people without relatives, preferably foreigners,” the statement added.
In another case, Those involved obtained permission from an elderly man with impaired abilities to donate his body to science.
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“In addition, said donation was signed so that the body would be sent to a certain medical school, finally being taken to another” that “paid more money for it.”
Those involved are suspected of an alleged crime of fraud and documentary falsification.
AFP
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