Georgia questioning “four international immigrants” following revelations from the Pavena Foundation
PUBLISHED: 7 Feb 2025 at 20: 55
Thailand and Georgia announced that they are looking into a human smuggling ring that a Thai non-governmental organization claims is attempting to harvest Thai women’s individual eggs from the South Caucasus nation.
Three Thai people who were alleged to have been working as surrogates in the country were repatriated by Georgia’s internal government on Thursday, according to the interior ministry. Four international citizens were reportedly interrogated as part of the investigation.
Georgia has no established infertility rules. However, there are advertisements for the services they offer, and infertility agreements are regarded as legitimate contracts. The Georgian government has stated that it is preparing to declare it unlawful.  ,
Surapan Thaiprasert, chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Royal Thai Police, told Reuters on Friday that Thai authorities were investigating.
One of the victims was speaking at a press conference in Thailand this year, without giving a name, and wore a mouth mask and hat.
She claimed to have responded to a social media post calling for surrogate mother to receive money from people and receive a monthly salary of 25, 000 baht. She said that after agreeing, she was brought to Georgia, via Dubai and Armenia, where two Taiwanese citizens escorted her to a home.
” They took us to a home where there were 60 to 70 Thai women. The women there told us there was no ( surrogacy ) contracts or parents”, she said.
The ladies, she said, “would get injected to obtain therapy, anaesthetised and their eggs may be extracted with a system. After we got this knowledge and it was not the same as the ad, we got scared. We made an effort to reach people at home.
The people at the press event claimed they had faked being weak in order to avoid having their eggs harvested. They added that their documents had been taken, and that their captors had informed them that they had the option of being detained in Thailand if they returned house.
The three people were reportedly returned by the Pavena Hongsakul Foundation for Children and Women, but it was estimated that there were still around 100 more recruited ladies in Georgia.
Ms. Pavena claimed to have been informed of the activity from a different woman who had been released in September, only to be reimbursed by the group for$ 70,000.