Investigative Committee will check reports of deliberate damage to corpses in the morgue in Togliatti

Investigators organized a check after reports appeared that employees in the Togliatti morgue were deliberately defacing corpses. This was reported in the press service of the Investigative Committee for the region.

“An investigation has begun, during which all the circumstances of the incident are being established. Based on the results of the check, a procedural decision will be made,” the statement says.

The prosecutor's office also started a corresponding check.

Earlier, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that several Togliatti residents complained about the employees of the local morgue. They told the newspaper that mortuary workers demanded money from relatives allegedly for additional services, and if they refused to pay, the body of the deceased was taken out of the refrigerator and placed near the battery or on the floor. Also, relatives could not get the bodies for a long time. As a result, by the funeral they received corpses with "putrefactive changes."