Spanish police have dismantled a criminal network accused of falsifying documentation to remove bodies from hospitals and nursing homes for sell them illegally to universitieswith the arrest of several funeral home managers and employees.

As the police reported this Monday, without specifying the number of detainees, they are accused of crimes of fraud and falsification of documents.

The bodies were sold for approximately 1,200 euros. The group was looking for dead people without relatives, preferably foreigners or those who had poor living conditions were less likely to claim the remains, he said in his statement.

The investigation began in early 2023 after agents learned what could have been the body of a deceased person was removed from the hospital morgue irregularly funeral home by falsifying the register of the sanatorium and documentation provided to the registry office.

Investigators found that two funeral home workers, after falsifying documents donated the body to the university for study, instead of burying him.

Late He was to be buried at a charity funeral. According to police, it was paid for by the mayor’s office of the city where he lived in the Spanish province of Valencia (east), but was sold without the consent of any family members or friends.

Police discovered another case with the same procedure. this time with the body of a deceased person in a nursing home, and later they also discovered irregularities in the cremation of bodies supposedly donated to science.

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Agents discovered that the funeral home would have billed the university for 5040 euros for eleven incinerations that were not reflected in the invoices issued by any incinerator in Valencia.

Apparently, the defendants took advantage of the autopsy of the bodies place them in the coffins of other dead, cremating several corpses in one, saving on the cost of several and at the same time exhibiting them to the university, receiving, according to these sources, tangible benefits.

(EFE)