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Tourist's body "mistakenly" sent to Canada from Cuba still not returned to Russia

The family wants to determine the cause of death, as the victim's wife suspects that her husband met a violent death.

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The body of the Russian tourist who died in Cuba and was mistakenly sent to Canada at the end of March has not yet returned to his country, where the deceased's family is waiting for him.

In an interview with RT, the deceased's wife, named Tatiana, said, "My husband is 99% in Canada," and that they have been "promised that by the end of May his body will be sent home to Chelyabinsk."

The woman announced that she plans to carry out a forensic examination to determine the cause of death, as Tatiana suspects that her husband had a violent death.

"The body swap was not accidental, but deliberate," says the woman, who believes that traces of the murder must remain in her husband's body, and that is why they sent her a "bald Canadian."

After the death of her husband Ilya Neroev, 51 years old, which occurred on March 22 in Cuba, Tatiana received –three weeks later– the body of the Canadian Faraj Allah Jarjour, 60 years old, who had also died on the Caribbean island around the same time.

The Canadian family received the body of the Russian, and the Russian family received the body of the Canadian.

Neroev traveled to Cuba on March 20th with Tatiana. On March 22nd, they were resting on the beach when the man got up to the room and then did not return.

The woman later found out that he had died, but she only saw the covered body and observed the head. Three days later, she returned to Russia.

The man's daughter stated that they waited three weeks for the body to arrive in Russia. However, they were given the body of the Canadian man, but since they could not identify him, he was buried by the family believing it was Neroev.

It was Faraj Allah Jarjour's family who realized that the body that arrived from Cuba was not the correct one and they began the investigations.

The Cuban regime, through its foreign ministry, apologized to both families for the regrettable error, which has not yet been rectified.

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