The division has been investigating the case since 2017 when Customs officials found six tubes of human semen hidden in nitrogen tanks on board a truck in Nong Khai province, CSD chief Pol Maj-General Montri Theskhan said.
Investigators found that the truck was supposed to deliver the semen to a clinic in Laos that offers surrogacy service to couples with infertility issues. Police believe the operation is part of an illegal surrogacy ring that hires Laotian or Cambodian women to be surrogates, so that the newborn infants would inherit the nationality of their surrogate mothers.
This would help facilitate money laundering operations of illegal businesses, which police believe are backed by Chinese crime syndicates, said Montri.
The suspect, Theeraphong Chaisuk, has reportedly confessed to smuggling semen to…
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