From a news article:
福島県いわき市の建設会社「武蔵建設」の敷地に男性の遺体を埋めたとして、死体遺棄容疑で同社の元社長ら男6人が逮捕された事件で、県警は7日、強盗殺人容疑で6人を再逮捕した。
What role is として fulfilling?
It seems like it may be functioning as a sort of and? My best attempt at translation is that we are just talking about:
An incident in which a body was burried and abandoned.
But I'm sure I'm at least missing some nuance, if not getting it totally wrong. So what is として doing here?