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From a [news
article](http://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/160607/afr1606070040-n1.html):

> 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?
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grammar reading-comprehension
What is the function of として in this sentence? (Vたとして)
Here として is "as", or "in the role of". It sets a (potentially hypothetical)
role and then describes conclusions/results based on that role. In the quoted
story, it sets up the "role/action" for which the six men were initially
arrested.

Rough translation (abbreviating the company name and location):

> (For their possible) role in burying a man's corpse on "A Company" grounds,
> on suspicion of dumping dead bodies, six former presidents from the same
> company were arrested. On the 7th, on suspicion of murder connected to armed
> robbery, the six men were re-arrested by prefecture police.

For more information on this usage please see the section on とする of Tae Kim's
Guide (<http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/reasoning>)
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