Germany | A German funeral director is under investigation for fraud after allegedly switching corpses into cheap board-based boxes prior to cremation.
In Germany, bodies are normally cremated without the mourners present - but in the same finely-made casket seen at the funeral. According to a prosecutor in Wilhelmshaven, near the Dutch border, a former employee of the undertaker claims that families were charged full price for the coffins but that the boxes were saved and sold again. Inquiries so far indicate that only cheap coffins were cremated with the bodies.
The undertaker owns five funeral parlours.
