“Ukraine became one of the centers of commercial surrogacy” — such a strong statement was announced by the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko on July 16 at a briefing in Kiev. He reported that workers of the State Office of Public Prosecutor have found out the criminal scheme which included Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom and it was involved in the organization of surrogacy.
Is BioTexCom a criminal or a victim?
As we reported earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine suspects the known Kiev clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom of commission of a number of serious crimes such as: forgery, human trafficking and evasion of taxes. In turn in 3 days after the sensational events one of co-owners of clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom Albert Tochilovski said that the real purpose of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is raider occupation of BioTexCom clinic and it does not exclude that in the nearest future the clinic will carry over some son of the official from prosecutor’s office. Albert Tochilovski’s statement for cases of raider capture of private business in Ukraine through the Prosecutor General’s Office not news. Unfortunately such “practice” is alive in Ukraine and we often hear in media and numerous Internet media about pressure cases from the Prosecutor General’s Office on private business. We should remember also that on corruption level Ukraine won in 2017 first place among 41 European countries and since then nothing changed. Knowing this fact, we of course assume that mister Tochilovski of the rights and the only reason of “attack” on its clinic this desire to take away their successful business from lawful owners. But there is one detail in this case which mister Tochilovski held back. We can accuse as much as necessary the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine of corruption, but whether we have sufficient bases to accuse of corruption the Italian law enforcement agencies thanks to which and it became known of this case? It is already proved by the Italian law enforcement authorities that documents were forged, and the children born in Ukraine by surrogate mother have no biological communication with one of Italian parents. The management of BioTexCom clinic was expressed earlier the intention to make own internal investigation in “the Italian case”, but on the date of writing this article of any information from them it was not obtained yet.
BioTexCom Kiev Reproduction Clinic Accused of Human Trafficking
Yesterday in many leading Ukrainian media information that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine suspects Kiev clinic of a reproduction BioTexCom for trafficking children and forgery appeared. The Attorney-General of Ukraine Yuryi Lutsenko at the briefing which is specially organized for this purpose reported about it. The Attorney-General reported that the BioTexCom company forged documents and gave to customers biologically not their children. Let’s remind that according to the legislation of Ukraine surrogacy provides obligatory biological relationship at least with one of parents. This rule, according to the Attorney-General of Ukraine BioTexCom clinic neglected and there is a suspicion that about one thousand families could suffer from its criminal activity. One of such cases was revealed by the Italian law enforcement authorities when it became clear that the Italian married couple, having used services of BioTexCom in 2011 is not biological parents of the child. Documents were forged as the carried-out expertize showed. At the moment the Italian married couple is in Italy under arrest.