A Chinese company was accused of stealing more than 4 thousand bodies from crematoriums and medical laboratories to use their bones in dental transplants, a lawyer said on Chinese social media Thursday.

Lawyer Yi Shenghua, president of Beijing Brave Lawyers, said police in the central city of Taiyuan were investigating allegations that the bones were being used to make allogeneic bone grafts, which are typically made from the bones of other people. removed during operations with the consent of donors.

A spokesman for the Taiyuan Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that authorities were investigating allegations of a criminal network. “theft and resale of corpses for profit” The Hong Kong newspaper reported, although it did not provide further details. South China Morning Post.

In a social media post, Yi said Shanxi Aorui Biomaterials was suspected of illegally purchasing corpses and limbs in the provinces of Sichuan (central), Guangxi (south) and Shandong (east) for the production of bone grafts.

According to Yi, The company earned 380 million yuan ($53 million), mostly from the sale of bone for dental transplants.

Allogeneic transplants are used when patients do not have sufficient bone density for graftsBut bone is usually taken from patients who have consented to surgeries such as hip replacements.

Police More than 18 tons of bones were seized and more than 34 thousand products, according to documents published by Yi, which are cited by the Hong Kong newspaper.

The newspaper also reported that the suspect, identified as Su, is the company’s CEO. admitted to stealing more than 4,000 corpses crematoria in Yunnan (south), Chongqing (centre), Guizhou (centre) and Sichuan.

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According to the newspaper, 75 suspects were detained during the investigation.

The first information appeared in a Chinese digital newspaper Paperfrom which references to this case have already disappeared, as have numerous articles about it in other media in the Asian country, where this issue has caused great public outrage. (EFE)