The Criminal Court has sentenced four obstetricians and four brokers to prison terms of up to 15 years for their roles in a transnational commercial surrogacy network, ruling that they treated the human body as a commodity and deliberately circumvented the law.
The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road on Thursday delivered its verdict in the second case arising from a cross-border commercial surrogacy operation. Prosecutors charged 10 defendants, including Lt Col Dr Chanin Asawataret, with participating in a transnational criminal organisation, arranging commercial surrogacy, and illegally importing or exporting embryos, sperm and human eggs.
