Obteen Nassiri, an American of Iranian origin who grew up in Las Vegas (United States), lost his chiropractic license in 2010, after being convicted of fraud and scams amounting to millions of dollars. As reported by an NBC News investigation, the man then embarked on a new activity: the trade in human corpses.
A profession which, according to several experts, would escape the regulations in force in the health and funeral sectors. This lack of surveillance sometimes leads to unworthy treatment of human remains, as the trajectory of Obteen Nassiri seems to show.
A very lucrative activity
In 2015, the latter founded the company Med Ed Labs with his brother-in-law. From a location in a Las Vegas shopping center, the company purchased corpses from funeral homes and medical schools, then resold or rented them at high prices to various groups seeking human remains for medical training, including the US military. In a few years, the entrepreneur managed to build a national network, crossing the $2 million turnover mark in the third year of the company’s existence.
However, some of Obteen Nassiri’s clients were unaware of the scandals and alleged breaches of ethics of which he was accused. In August 2021, for example, a Texas medical school ordered five bodies from Med Ed Labs, but one of them reportedly arrived in an advanced state of decomposition.
Veteran’s body dissected in public
According to a manager, it was packaged “in a box that looked like cardboard taken out of a trash can.” A few months later, the fifty-year-old made headlines, after selling the corpse of a Second World War veteran, who died at 98. His body was dissected by a retired professor in a hotel ballroom, in front of people who had paid $500 each to attend the event.
The manager of the company Med Ed Labs has been prosecuted since 2020, not for the unworthy treatment of which he is accused, but for having used his company accounts for personal expenses. The company finally filed for bankruptcy on March 15, but several elements seem to indicate that Obteen Nassiri is still active in the corpse trade, through a new company.
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