Officials from Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) have recently rescued a surrogate baby from a house in Samut Prakan province and are looking for two people, who are believed to be members of a transnational commercial surrogacy racket hiring Thai woman as surrogate mothers.
DSI Director-General Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol said today (Saturday) that the rescued baby is believed to have been born to a surrogate Thai mother, hired by commercial operators in the north-eastern province of Nong Khai, adding that babies born to surrogate mothers are sent to Samut Prakan and Bangkok to be nursed, before they are accepted by their foreign parents.
Armed with a court issued warrant, DSI officers recently searched a condominium in Thai Ban Mai sub-district of Samut Prakan, as it was suspected that the occupant of a room there was connected to the multinational surrogacy racket.
The officials found baby milk bottles and computer based information about the racket in the room. Another group of officers searched a building in Bangkok’s Bang Phlat district, but no details of that search are available.