agents National Police they have The owner and two employees of a funeral home in Valencia were arrested accused sell dead bodiesThey prepared fake documents to remove the bodies hospitals and residences And then charge universities for their work.
Those detained now 1200 euros were requested per body. They also billed again for the removal of the same bodies from the area. medical school Once the medical studies were completed, they cremated them, luring them in case something was missing.
They were cremated in the coffins of the other dead
They came this way A university will be billed 5,040 euros for 11 funerals Which bodies? They weren’t even reflected On invoices issued by any incinerator operating in Valencia. The point was They took advantage of the dismemberment of bodies to secretly place the remains in other coffins. they will be burned Disposing of bodies without paying.
investigation begins in early 2023 After learning that there will be spies The body of the deceased was removed from the hospital morgue in an irregular manner A particular funeral home may have falsified the registry as well as the documents submitted to the Civil Registry Office.
They took the body illegally
After numerous studies, researchers confirmed how this happens. Two funeral home workers allegedly seized a body after forging documents He said that he was in the hospital morgue and would be transferred to a university to study instead of being buried.
Deceased He should have been buried in his town of residence, with a charity funeral paid for by the city council. but from the town of Valencia in question Sold for almost 1,200 euros for workwithout the consent of any family member or friend.
In this situation, alarms went off and the National Police decided to investigate further into the investigation, suspecting that this was not a unique or isolated case.
They were looking for strangers with no family
In this way, agencies They found another case with the same modus operandi. This time the deceased was accepted in a nursing home and it was apparently claimed that he was the man three days before he died. He allowed his body to be donated. But it is obvious that this is a fake document.
In this case, investigators were able to confirm that he was the man. their mental abilities were impairedsince you’ve been in pain severe cognitive impairmentAccording to that statement made by Valencia Police Departmentthis would not allow him to understand what the donation meant.
Additionally, a donation was signed for the sending of the body. to a particular medical school, finally be taken to someone else for paying more for the same thingTo do this It was revealed that the medical staff changed the destination of the body by deception.
Those who started the investigation were looking for the dead person Those who are not family members, preferably foreigners, or have had unstable living conditions throughout their lives to carry out irregularities, therefore They made sure that there was no tracking of these donations. by a family member, hence greater impunity is sought.
They performed a single cremation and billed several
But they didn’t stop there. Agents also learned that: Irregularities in cremations One of the bodies allegedly donated to science. After universities complete their studies The law regarding them requires them to take responsibility for their cremation. And that’s where the funeral home stepped in again, agreeing to take charge of the process.
Actually the funeral home was investigated The same university was billed 5,040 euros for 11 funerals, What’s next These were not reflected in the invoices issued by any of the authorized incinerators in Valencia.
They distributed the bodies to other coffins
Apparently researched They took advantage of the dismemberment and dismemberment of corpses that occurred within the scope of medical work for place them in the coffins of other deceasedto do cremation of more than one person in a single cremation corpsesWe gain serious benefits from this application by both saving costs and billing the university. Clean profit.
After collecting evidence of all criminal acts, agents In addition to the managers of the funeral home being investigated, they arrested two workers from the same institution. as alleged authors crime of fraudTwo people are also charged crime of forgery of documents.