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A German medical firm is under investigation after accusations that it paid a middleman to cannibalise corpses in Eastern Europe so they could be sold to hospitals in the West. Tutogen, a German subsidiary of America's RTI Biologics, is alleged to have bought up the bones, cartilage, tendons, skin, eye corneas, and heart valves from thousands of corpses for implantation in living Western patients.

German firm investigated over body parts trade