Harvard pays half a billion for body sales
The prestigious Harvard University in the United States is paying $53 million in a settlement with families affected by the sale of relatives' body parts.
A former head of the university's morgue stole and sold body parts.
The former head of the morgue at Harvard Medical School has previously been sentenced to eight years in prison for dealing in stolen internal organs, brains, hands and dissected heads. Six more people were convicted of involvement.
On Wednesday, Harvard announced that it had reached a settlement worth the equivalent of 500 million kronor in a Boston court to compensate relatives.
The university's medical faculty receives bodies donated by relatives. The bodies are used in autopsies and research - and then cremated or returned to relatives.
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