Spanish court orders investigation into owners funeral company for participation in the alleged illegal sale from corpses to universities.

Provincial Court of Valencia upholds by order the appeal filed by the prosecutor’s office against the criteria of the investigating judge in the case in which two employees are already under investigation.

The Valencia Court of Inquiry is keeping open two cases in the same matter: the first concerns exclusively alleged violations in selling a corpseand one more for alleged criminal network on the same issue.

The provincial court’s decision, announced on Tuesday, is related to the first of these reasons, namely selling body about a man who died in La Fe Hospital to university.

The investigating judge believes that the possible crime of forging documents at the registry office was committed only by the funeral home employees. However, the prosecutor disagrees and believes that “involvement, knowledge and decision making ability» from funeral home owners undeniable.

Both employees and both ownersamong 41 and 74 years oldwere arrested in January last year and temporarily released after giving testimony.

The police suspect that They billed me for about $5,500. to the university eleven cremations of bodiesonce studied, which were not reflected in the bills issued by any of the waste incineration plants operating in the city.

Apparently, the defendants took advantage of the autopsy and dismemberment of the bodies to take them away coffins of other deaddoing it all at once cremation of multiple corpses.

Thus, presumably, they saved money by paying for thembut yes they billed the universityand they made a significant profit from it.

The investigation began in early 2023 when agents learned that I would remove the body a dead person from a hospital morgue Wrong Way past the funeral home.

For this they would have been conducted falsifications in the logbook about him, as well as in the documentation provided to the registry office.

Investigators have established that two funeral home workers, after falsifying documents, took possession of the body, which was in hospital morgue and they would have transferred to the university to studyinstead of burying him.