Ecuador businessman jailed for overpriced body bags
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — An Ecuadorian businessman has been jailed over a scam to sell body bags to a hospital for more than 10 times their cost price amid a spike in novel coronavirus cases, the prosecution service said yesterday.
Daniel Salcedo was arrested in Peru a year ago after crashing the small plane in which he had sought to flee capture in Ecuador.
He has been found guilty of embezzlement over a scheme to sell body bags valued at about US$10 each for almost US$150 apiece to a hospital in Guayaquil in south-west Ecuador.
The hospital was at the time struggling to cope with an influx of coronavirus patients and was running out of space for the dead.
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