They illegally removed the bodies from morgues and hospitals and then resold them for 1,200 euros each to universities that used them for research or study purposes. This is the charge against a criminal group that was defeated by the Spanish police in Valencia.
According to local media reports, the group of four Spaniards, aged between 41 and 74, used two funeral homes to forge documents on the bodies and divert them from hospitals or residences for the elderly. To make sure no one filed a complaint, the group targeted deceased people who had no close relatives, preferably foreigners or those with poor living conditions. After the bodies were taken, they were sold to universities for 1,200 euros per person.
It didn’t end there: After the universities completed their activities, the same two funeral homes took over the cremation of the bodies. Universities paid funeral homes for this service, but researchers discovered that the bodies were cremated with other bodies to maximize revenue. “The suspects appear to have taken advantage of dismembering the bodies, placing them in the coffins of other deceased persons, and carrying out the cremation of multiple bodies in a single cremation,” he said in a memo.
The police discovered the affair after receiving a tip from a municipality in the province of Valencia, where some residents had started a fundraising campaign to cover the funeral costs of one of their citizens. However, the man’s body never returned home. The loss of the body triggered investigations that led to the arrest of four members of the group and the reporting of two employees of the funeral home used by the criminals.
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