Suspected Japanese father of surrogate babies fails to meet investigators

BANGKOK, 18 August 2014 (NNT) - The Japanese man suspected to be the father of at least 13 surrogate babies has failed to report himself to investigators after his lawyer earlier informed Thai authorities about the man’s plan to return to Thailand to meet the police on Monday.

Police Colonel Naiyawat Padermchit, commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 4, said that Mr. Mitsutoki Shigeta, a Japanese businessman at the centre of a surrogacy scandal and a human trafficking probe, has not met with investigators yet.

Mr. Shigeta’s lawyer informed the authorities over the past weekend that he will travel back to Thailand on August 18 to meet with Thai police.

However, on Monday, Mr. Shigeta’s lawyer handed over his DNA sample and a note explaining his reasons to have a lot of babies as well as other pieces of information he would like to share.

Pol. Col. Naiyawat insisted that investigators still need to interrogate Mr. Shigeta and to prove that the handed-over DNA sample really belongs to him.

So far, Thai officials have no evidence to initiate any legal charge against Mr. Shigeta, who has fled Thailand after a police raid on his rented condominium at in Bangkok last Tuesday uncovered nine surrogate babies and a pregnant woman.


-- NNT 2014-08-19

Now there's a big surprise. Who would have expected that?

" Failed to report ? '

Wasn't he invited pretty please ?

Did they honestly believe he would turn up ? The only thing they got right is they have a DNA sample but who gave it ?

Another great mystery for the BIB.

Surprise, surprise ;-)

One thing seems to be overlooked in this round of knee jerk reactions to some bad publicity coming from overseas. As commercial surrogacy is still not illegal in Thailand, it is merely against the rules of the doctors association and the gyno's association, he does not have a legal case to worry about. This may change any day now as there is a legislative body sitting in parliament.

New legislation cannot be retrospective. Is there an extradition agreement with Japan? If there is - what charges?

Probable too busy....

Making babies.

There is one frightening aspect to this case. Could it be baby farming, for organ harvesting?

Thai baby scandal: police test Japanese man's DNA

BANGKOK, August 19, 2014 (AFP) - Thai authorities said Tuesday that they were testing the DNA of a Japanese man at the centre of a "baby factory" scandal to determine if he is the biological father of the nine infants.

Thai police are seeking to question the man -- who has since left the country but voluntarily sent the DNA sample -- about the mysterious discovery earlier this month of the nine babies in a Bangkok apartment.

Five other babies previously cared for at the same property are thought to have already been taken out of the country.

Police Major General Naiyawat Phadermchit said officials were awaiting the result of the DNA test.

"The police investigators sent it to the forensic experts of the national police to check and compare," he told reporters.

"We will inform you when we have any more information," he added.

According to the Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Post, the man is the son of a Japanese IT millionaire.

His lawyer Kong Suriyamontol submitted the DNA sample on his behalf to Thai police on Monday.

The sample was collected in Japan "by a respected relevant organisation", Kong added.

Kong said he had also submitted a written explanation from the Japanese man to the police, without divulging the content.

Police Colonel Witawat Chinkham told AFP that the Japanese man claimed to be the father of all the babies.

The case is the latest twist in a widening surrogacy scandal initially triggered by accusations that an Australian couple abandoned a baby born with Down's syndrome with his Thai surrogate mother -- but took his healthy twin sister.

David Farnell, 56, and his wife have denied deliberately leaving the boy, called Gammy, with the surrogate mother, who was paid around $15,000 to carry the twins.

Paid surrogacy is illegal in Thailand and the kingdom's army rulers have vowed to introduce a new law that could result in 10 years' imprisonment for anyone found guilty of involvement in the trade.

Australia has asked Thailand to make "transitional arrangements" to help any of its citizens who have already entered into surrogacy arrangements.

Last week a gay Australian couple were stopped from leaving Thailand with a baby because they had incomplete documents.

-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-08-19

I am not surprised , it is he's turn to change nappies this week.

So in reality.....everything said of Shigeta san may well be just heresay....with no evidence, the cops are stumped.....again!

He has no legal right to hear the police request nor to adhere to it. Even if he came his lawyer would do all the talking for him. It should be easy enough to test the sample dna given against the babies here. The law here should accept his lawyers documents and sample hheeewheee.. lawyers never lie. Especially in thailand

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Thailand could hire me for $1,000/day to suggest laws for things they currently have no laws for.

I'd start with deadbeat dads. The Japanese fellow is making headlines now, but there's an underlying problem in Thailand (and yes, most other countries also) where men can willy nilly get girls pregnant, and then skip off in to the sunset - with zero legal repercussions. If there was ever a comprehensive program to see which Thai and hill tribe (and farang) men have sired babies with Thai women, and then skipped off, it would ruffle a whole lot of feathers, top to bottom of the social ladder.

#2 might be: harboring a fugitive from the law - another issue which is not illegal to do in Thailand.

Really, I have no idea why he didn't meet with TH investigators

Shocked, totally bloody shocked he did not turn up and do the "finger pointing" photo op

No need for finger pointing, he will be the one with a his arm in a sling and a bandaged wrist.

Edited August 19, 201411 yr by Basil B

Why would anyone volunteer to come back to be the stooge of a nation's administartion desperate to save face in a cynical blame-diversion for their own failures to regulate. I would have told them to go suck their own.

Police want him to cum quickly

It will be interesting if they compel him to re-enact the crimes.

Edited August 20, 201411 yr by boomerangutang

Police want him to cum quickly

New nick name----9" Tokyo.

Pathetic. Morally corrupt Thailand strikes again. Not a single Thai cares that this individual is likely making and selling his own children. Life goes on and Thais walk around with blinkers on. Not my problem.