Three babies linked to Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta found in Cambodia

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THAILAND’s Department of Special Investigations (DSI) have reportedly found three young children believed to have been fathered by Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta, who has been embroiled in a surrogacy scandal since 2014. According to the Bangkok Post, the DSI spoke of the three children during a meeting of the National Legislative Assembly’s (NLA) special committee, who are now studying ways to protect children born via medical fertility technology, then left by their surrogate parents.

The mothers of the three children are thought to be Thai women hired by Shigeta as surrogates, taken to Cambodia and left there with caregivers. Officials have not yet met the children in person, said Methini Ratrasan, director of the DSI’s Bureau of Technology and Information Inspection Centre.

Shigeta, who has been identified by Japanese media as the son of billionaire Yasumitsu Shigeta, was investigated by Interpol in August 2014 for suspected human trafficking after it was revealed he had fathered at least 16 babies with surrogate mothers in Thailand.

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