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{"id":93,"thread_id":43,"author_id":20,"body":"Legal accusations \r\n\r\nIn 2002 there were legal proceedings against a senior pathologist and coroner in Siberia regarding a shipment of 56 corpses to Heidelberg. The police maintained that the Novosibirsk coroner, Vladimir Novosylov, had sold the bodies illegally to buyers outside of Russia. Von Hagens was not charged in the case, but he was called as a witness against Novosylov.[26] The authorities stopped the shipment of bodies and the agreement between Novosibirsk and von Hagens was terminated.[27]\r\n\r\nIn October 2003, a parliamentary committee in Kyrgyzstan investigated accusations that von Hagens had illegally received and plastinated several hundred corpses from prisons, psychiatric institutions and hospitals in Kyrgyzstan, some without prior notification of the families. Von Hagens himself testified to the committee; he said he had received nine corpses from Kyrgyzstan hospitals, that none of them had been used for the Body Worlds exhibition, and that he was neither involved with nor responsible for the notification of the families.[28]\r\n\r\nIn 2003, an animal rights organization filed a complaint alleging that von Hagens did not have correct papers for a gorilla he had plastinated.[29] He had received the cadaver from the Hanover Zoo, where the animal had died.[29]\r\n\r\nIn 2003, the University of Heidelberg filed a criminal complaint against von Hagens, claiming that he had misrepresented himself as a professor from a German university in a Chinese document, and that in Germany he had failed to state the foreign origin of his title. After a trial, he received a fine in March 2004. On 25 April 2005, a Heidelberg court imposed a fine of €108,000 (equivalent to 90 days of his daily income as assessed by the court) for one count of using an academic title that he was not entitled to, but acquitted him on four other counts. On appeal, a higher court in September 2006 reduced the penalty to a warning with a suspended fine of €50,000, which under German law is not deemed a prior criminal conviction.[30] In 2007 the charge of title misuse was finally dismissed by the Federal Court of Justice of Germany in Karlsruhe.[31]\r\n\r\nGerman prosecutors declined to press charges, and in March 2005 von Hagens was granted an interim injunction against Der Spiegel, preventing the magazine from claiming that Body Worlds contained the bodies of executed prisoners.[28]","revision":1,"deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2026-09-09 10:51:01","updated_at":"2026-09-09 10:51:01"}