Woman arrested in illegal surrogacy fraud
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A FORMER clerk of a local company was arrested for swindling people of more than 400,000 yuan (US$63,600) with promises of illegal surrogacy, Yangpu District prosecutors said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Guan, joined a local investment management company called Mujia, which was involved in illegal surrogacy business, in 2008.
She left the company three years later to join an advertising company. But unhappy with the salary and her new job, she cooked up the idea of contacting Mujia’s clients with the intention of defrauding them, prosecutors claimed.
In October 2011, she contacted a woman surnamed Zhou, who had previously received an egg retrieval from Mujia. Guan told her the company would offer an embryo transfer for her. Guan made a fake contract under Mujia’s title for which Zhou paid her some 40,000 yuan as “intermediary service, embryo transfer and management fees.”
Guan told Zhou the in-vitro fertilization had succeeded and asked her to pay 20,000 yuan every month as nutrition fee for the surrogate mother.
Zhou had wanted to meet the surrogate mother several times but Guan refused saying it was against the company rules.
After nearly 10 months, Guan told Zhou the surrogate mother was in hospital to deliver the child. When Zhou’s family reached the hospital and failed to find the surrogate mother or the baby, Guan told them that the surrogate mother had fled with the baby.
She herself disappeared soon after.
Guan had also hoodwinked another victim, surnamed Gao, who did not know that she had quit her job at Mujia.
Gao contacted Guan in 2012 and asked for a surrogacy service. Guan even introduced Gao to a fake surrogate mother. She forged the antenatal care and body check reports and reported the progress of the “surrogate mother” to Gao every month.
As the delivery time approached, Gao received a message from Guan saying the surrogate mother had slipped in the restroom causing abortion.
Guan was untraceable after that.
Police caught up with Guan on December 5 last year and said she had pocketed more than 400,000 yuan between March 2011 and January 2013.
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