Dozens of ladies have been kept hostage by a Chinese gang and compelled into human egg harvesting in Georgia, it has been claimed.
As many as 100 victims were present in a ‘four-house compound’ in Tbilisi after allegedly being trafficked from Thailand and thru Armenia.
One woman, identified only as Na, said that upon arriving, she was put in a house with 60 other Thai women – lots of whom were ill.
Na told the Thai online newspaper The Nation she was later moved to a second accommodation, where she was living with 10 other women.
She said she believed that ‘around 100 Thai women were trapped across the 4 houses’.
It was last week that the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs launched an investigation into the alleged human trafficking charges.
Officers searched multiple locations, locating and interviewing as much as 70 foreign residents.
Three Thai women amongst them were desperate to depart as they not desired to be surrogates and stay at their residential address.
They were transferred to a shelter for victims of human trafficking on the identical day and were later returned to their homeland.
Police also questioned 4 foreign residents who brought Thai women to Georgia for surrogacy.
Most of the women were unaware that the method was for egg harvesting, and never surrogacy.
Belle, one in all the ladies brought over from Thailand, told the BBC she asked her boss to return to Thailand.
She told him: ‘You said it was a surrogate mothering job. You said you got here and signed a contract.
‘But he said if I wanted to return, I had to search out 60,000-70,000 baht to redeem myself after which I could go home. Or I needed to sell my eggs to repay my debts thrice.’
Authorities are continuing to analyze.
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