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A 25-year-old man has been detained in Torrecaballeros, near Segovia, Spain, for allegedly hiding his father’s corpse in a wardrobe for over a year to continue claiming his pension. Spain’s Civil Guard confirmed that police discovered the body during a search of the family home, and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death has been initiated.
The investigation is ongoing, with authorities examining potential charges of fraud in addition to concealing a body. The father is believed to have died of natural causes, but his identity and age have yet to be confirmed.
Authorities in Spain’s Civil Guard confirmed the arrest of a 25-year-old man who allegedly concealed his father’s corpse for over a year to continue receiving his pension. The investigation is ongoing, with potential additional charges for fraudulently claiming the pension and accessing his deceased father’s finances.
What remains unclear — The age of the father at the time of his death has not been disclosed.
Man arrested for hiding father’s body in wardrobe to claim pension in Spain
A man hid his father in a wardrobe for more than a year-and-a-half after his death to claim his pension (Picture Shutterstock /Ivanb.photo)
A man accused of hiding his dad’s dead body for more than a year so he could keep claiming his pension has been detained.
The 25-year-old told officers he had concealed his parent’s body for a year and a half following his death in the family home, Spain’s Civil Guard confirmed.
Police searched the house in the town of Torrecaballeros near Segovia where they found the corpse stored in a wardrobe.
The father is thought to have died of natural causes, although his age at death is as of yet unknown and an investigation has been opened into the incident.
His son could face up to two years in prison if charged with concealing the whereabouts of a body.
Authorities have also not ruled out other charges, including fraudulently claiming the pension for more than a year and accessing a deceased person’s finances.
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The 25-year-old man admitted to police he had concealed his father’s body at the family home in Torrecaballeros near Segovia in Spain (Picture: Google Maps)
There have been previous examples of relatives hiding the body of deceased familiy members for economic gain.
A Greek man was arrested last month for hiding his dead father in a basement freezer for two-and-a-half years.
The 55-year-old from the Peloponnese had lied to investigators that his father had gone to live in Athens, RTE reported.
Authorities later discovered the corpse in a freezer in a former hotel that had been converted to housing in the town of Mystras.
In 2023, two Canadian walkers discovered the body of an Italian man in a cave some 250 kilometres from his home in Puglia.
Bruno Delnegro was hidden by his sons in a bid to claim his €3,000-a-month pension.
Rather than notify authorities of the death, the family had placed the 81-year-old’s body in a sleeping bag, before driving it across to the village of Castrovalva in the Abruzzo region.
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