Moscow - The Russian police are investigating how 54 corpses and 440 brains were removed from a medical school in Siberia and illegally transported to an embalming institute in Germany.
Some of the bodies from the Novosibirsk medical academy may have ended up as human sculptures in a German anatomist's exhibition of preserved corpses in Berlin.
Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworld exhibition is made up of dead bodies that have been skinned, dissected and positioned in lifelike poses.