Hautausmafia kukoistaa itänaapurissa

With an estimated 200,000 men killed so far in the Ukraine war, Russia's cemeteries are booming. A 'cemetary mafia' is profiting by violently taking over cemeteries, funeral businesses and even hospitals, attacking funerals, and setting fire to rivals.

The cemetery mafia have a reputation for dealing harshly with relatives of the deceased who refuse to pay their excessive fees. At the village of Lebyazhye, they attempted to prevent a grave being dug and threatened to bury the coffin in a garbage dump.

Not surprisingly, the cemetery mafia has shown little regard for the bodies in their custody. Relatives have found that they have been given the wrong person to bury. Dozens of frozen bodies were found stuffed into a refrigerated container outside the hospital at Toksovo.

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