Chinese social media users have discovered they are now banned from discussing the shocking news that medical supplies company Shanxi Arwei Biomaterials has been found to be selling human corpses and body parts.
The Chinese Communist Party’s army of social media censors launched a heavy crackdown three days after the news broke. Delete The series of posts was posted on the microblogging platform Weibo by lawyer Yi Shengua, director of Beijing Yongzhe Law Firm.
Yi exposed the incident in a Weibo post on August 7, accusing the funeral home of sending large numbers of corpses to Shanxi Arui Biomaterials to be used as raw material for dental bone implants.
Yee’s sources said the company took what it needed from the bodies, cremated the rest, and sent it back to families who were unaware that their loved ones had been desecrated. The company was accused of providing its bone implant customers with forged consent forms from fictitious donors.
The case has attracted attention on China’s legal social media platforms, as more than 70 families have learned of the scheme and are suing the biotech companies. Yi added the case to his account after receiving tips from lawyers across China that he was involved in the lawsuits.
More than 4,000 corpses Believed Over the past eight years, $53 million in revenue was allegedly stolen from 12 cities in seven states and illegally diverted to the bone graft scheme.
Summary of the body theft case Received Chinese state media has focused on the case, reporting that government investigators are thoroughly investigating it and that around 75 suspects have already been detained. One report said that police have seized more than 18 tons of human bones and 34,000 bone grafts from Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials as evidence in the case.
However, almost all state media coverage of the scandal suddenly disappeared, along with Yi’s original post and many other Weibo posts discussing the horrific scandal. State media reports of investigations in the affected provinces were changed to say that authorities were investigating “petty corruption” and “small-scale wrongdoing” rather than body stealing.
“I can still see the Weibo posts, but others can’t. There seems to be some movement from above,” Yi said on Aug. 9.
Yi said the scandal had been completely removed from Weibo’s trending topics list and internet search engines. He was subsequently dragged into meetings with legal regulators and began refusing to further discuss the tomb robbery case with Chinese social media users and foreign media.
Some observers suspect that the Chinese Communist Party decided to censor the case because Shanxi Arui Biological Materials is a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation, a Beijing-based state-owned enterprise.
The Shanxi company Between The Communist government would not want to see the company ruined by a scandal, as it is China’s largest supplier of bone grafts and substitutes and is in high demand. The case could also be highly embarrassing for a regime that is actively encouraging its citizens to be cremated or buried at sea rather than buried in order to preserve valuable real estate.
of economist Added Suspicion The Chinese Communist Party wanted to end this story before it spread to state-owned medical giants like Sinopharm, who may have purchased some of the tainted bone grafts. Sinopharm issued a statement on August 9 denying any involvement in the scandal.
of South China Morning Post (South Carolina State University Press) Reported The body-snatching scandal had a big impact on the bone-graft company’s stock market portfolio, but not as big an impact as might have been expected. Rapid increase After the scandal came to light, eager investors concluded that if criminal gangs were willing to steal bodies from funeral homes to satisfy their demand for bone grafts, the demand must be overwhelming.
Shares of bone graft suppliers other than Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials rose 15-20 percent in daily trading after the body-stealing case was reported, even as China’s market index fell 0.3 percent.
“Some people are using the scandal to buy the news, which has been a popular trading pattern this year given weak economic fundamentals. The theory is that it will increase demand for substitutes,” sighed Wang Chen, a partner at Xu Zi Investment Management Co. in Shanghai.
