This Thursday, March 12, the Judiciary Police (PJ) carried out searches in the mortuary of the Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lisbon, due to “strong suspicions of the crime of receiving or offering an undue advantage”.
In the “Rigor Mortis” operation, the PJ’s National Anti-Corruption Unit also carried out 10 home searches, as part of an investigation that was launched “after the complaint that employees of the mortuary received monetary compensation, paid by several funeral agencies, to prepare the bodies of people who died in a hospital, thus allowing the collection of the bodies to be carried out more quickly”.
The PJ explains, in a statement, that “during the searches, in which a judge and a magistrate from the Public Prosecutor’s Office participated, evidence relevant to the investigation was seized, which will now be the subject of analysis” in an investigation led by DIAP in Lisbon.
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