Anza's body had been in the morgue for 10 months. He had died in a Toulouse hospital after collapsing in a local park. The body remained unidentified despite months of pressure from his family and radical Basque organisations to find out what had happened to him.
Eta has claimed Anza, who was said to have been carrying 300,000 (£270,000) of the group's money when he disappeared, was a victim of Spanish police. French doctors who carried out an autopsy this week said there were no signs of violence. He had 500 on him when he was taken to hospital.
"This is a campaign of lies organised by Eta," Spain's interior minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, said this week, adding that he would sue anyone who repeated the claim.
That's a lot of money. Anyone might have rolled the guy..