Musk’s Neuralink faces fresh allegations, probe sought by medical ethics group

Elon Musk is on the radar again with allegations of potential securities fraud being levelled at him, over the statements that he had made regarding the death of the animals that were used for research purposes at Neuralink, his biotech startup.

While Musk, in a Twitter post on September 10 attributed the death of the monkeys to their terminal illness (“close to death”, his post read) and not his company’s trial, a medical ethics group has sent letters to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) urging the agency to investigate Musk’s claims, reported WIRED. The letters claimed that the reason for the death of the primates was complications with the implant procedure.