Madrid:

Spanish police on Monday stated that they had busted the house owners of a funeral parlour in Valencia for allegedly promoting lifeless our bodies to college analysis departments for 1,200 euros per corpse.

The 4 suspects, two house owners and two staff, additionally helped the colleges eliminate the our bodies after that they had been studied by incinerating them or disposing of their dismembered elements in different coffins slated for cremation.

Many of the our bodies had been of individuals with none household.

The suspects “falsified documentation to get the our bodies from hospitals and retirement houses with a purpose to later promote them to universities for analysis for 1,200 ($1,300) per corpse,” a police assertion stated.

The suspects had bought at the very least 11 our bodies, it added.

In some circumstances, they even billed the colleges for cremations which by no means occurred.

“They billed one college 5,040 euros for incinerating 11 our bodies after being studied, which weren’t accounted for within the invoices of any of the crematoriums within the metropolis,” police stated.

Police started investigating in early 2023 after discovering that two funeral parlour staff had taken a physique from a hospital morgue utilizing false paperwork and introduced it to college researchers somewhat than burying it.

The physique belonged to a person who was to be buried in his dwelling city in an interment paid for by the native council, however as a substitute was bought for research with out anybody’s consent.

The suspects “seemed for individuals who had died with none residing family, ideally foreigners,” police stated.

In one other case, the suspects allegedly managed to influence an aged man with impaired psychological colleges to comply with donate his physique to science.

“That donor type stated the physique needs to be despatched to a sure medical facility, however ultimately it was taken to a different” which “paid extra money”, the police assertion stated.

The suspects are dealing with expenses of fraud and the falsification of paperwork.

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