According to the publication, a group of intruders who earn money from the illegal sale of bone tissue stole about 4 thousand bodies from crematoriums and medical laboratories. The amount they earned was about 380 million yuan (about 53 million dollars).
Lawyer Yi Sheng hua said that the Taiyuan City police are investigating a case of mass theft of human remains for the manufacture of allogeneic prostheses. It turned out that the Chinese company Shanxi Aorui Biomaterials illegally bought bodies and limbs in several provinces.
The CEO of the company has already confessed. According to him, the company stole more than 4 thousand human bodies from crematoriums in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, as well as the city of Chongqing. According to Yi Shenhua, a total of 75 suspects were detained for participating in a criminal scheme in this case.
