Morning anons…
https://x.com/CousinItt_00/status/1798555392794100057
Sputnik:
Coca Cola company is implicated in the purchase of children from Ukraine.
Sex-trafficking (pedophile networks) and black market organ harvesting
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@LizCrokin
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@ColonelTowner
@Winggal_123
https://x.com/ColonelTowner/status/1798668794124243440
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/23/ukraine-surrogates-fertility-00104913
KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to a surrogacy firm in Ukraine hoping to build a family six years ago, she says she never expected the uncertainty and heartbreak the process would bring.
Tanya desperately wanted a child but found out she would be unable to conceive herself. After discovering how expensive surrogacy in the U.S. can be, she and her husband began pursuing options abroad — and came across the Kyiv-based company BioTexCom. Tanya’s parents were originally from Odesa, so she felt there was something fitting about her future child being born in Ukraine.
Once the process began with BioTexCom in fall 2017, however, Tanya had an uneasy feeling. After sending her embryos, she says, she was told they would be implanted in a surrogate almost immediately — a timeline that didn’t fit with all the research Tanya had done into the surrogacy process. When, a few days later, the firm told her the embryo transfer had been unsuccessful and provided minimal information about why, she says, she suspected something was off.
We need to dig on BioTexCon…
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/risky-business-company-behind-stranded-surrogacy-babies-also-promoting
In 2011, an Italian couple returned home with a baby born from a Ukrainian surrogate in an arrangement facilitated by BioTexCom. After mandatory DNA testing by Italian officials, the baby was found to have no genetic link to the intended parents, preventing them from being officially recognized as the parents. (The child was eventually adopted by a different couple in Italy.)
Alleging that the 2011 case was not an isolated incident—and presumably informed by the 2012 revelations of a “baby-selling ring” in which Ukrainian fertility companies had taken part in creating “an inventory of unborn babies” for unsuspecting parents—Ukrainian authorities in 2018 initiated investigations into BioTexCom. Prosecutors requested permission to conduct genetic testing for more than 200 children throughout Europe and in China. They chargedBioTexCom’s owner Albert Tochilovsky and its head physician with human trafficking, document forgery, and tax evasion, and placed Tochilovsky temporarily under house arrest. It appears that the case has not gone to trial. Tochilovsky, who has owned BioTexCom since 2012, claimed that the 2011 case was “before his time” and, in any case, was a simple embryo mix-up that should only be subject to administrative penalties.
In 2019, an Australian reporter uncovered the case of Baby Bridget, whose American intended parents refused to take custody after she was born prematurely and required significant medical care. At the age of 3, she had spent most of her life in hospitals and had been placed in a children’s home in Ukraine. There she received care and therapy for a range of disabilities while awaiting Ukrainian citizenship, without which she could not be placed for adoption. Tochilovsky claims that Bridget’s intended parents were never clients at his clinic and that there must be another clinic impersonating BioTexCom to ruin its reputation.
The business model: “Cheapest surrogacy in Europe”
BioTexCom is the major player in Ukraine’s booming surrogacy market, which is fueled by poverty and instability in the country. It’s right there on the website: “The cheapest surrogacy in Europe is in Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe.” Tochilovsky claims that BioTexCom handles one quarter of the surrogacy market in the world and 70% of the market in Ukraine.
The company differentiates itself from other fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies by offering all-inclusive packages, including a “Guaranteed Success” package for IVF with a money-back guarantee if after five cycles there is no pregnancy that passes twelve weeks. Their surrogacy packages, starting at €34,900, offer unlimited IVF cycles for surrogates if using donor eggs (patients are limited to two egg retrievals using their own eggs).
BioTexCom offers prospective customers a luxury experience, with accommodations in “high-class hotels,” as well as meals, a driver, and even a local cell phone all provided by the clinic. Their “VIP Package” for €64,900 goes beyond the standard all-inclusive surrogacy deal (€34,900) by including sex selection, extra compensation for surrogates who carry twins, and a jump to the head of the line (less than four months wait versus up to a year in the standard surrogacy package).
A massive full-service operation supports these all-inclusive offerings. BioTexCom owns and operates not just the clinic space, but also apartments, hotels, a logistics team, and private cars and drivers. This kind of “vertical integration” is rarely seen in the fertility industry, even in cross-border surrogacy agencies that specialize in “reproductive tourism.” Tochilovsky has plans to extend his business empire horizontally too, hoping to eventually commercialize fringe biotechnologies that are ethically troubling and far from ready to move into the clinic, like artificial wombs and lab-grown human organs.
BioTexCon
https://biotexcom.com
"Experience the joy of parenthood with BioTexCom, the leading medical centre specializing in IVF and surrogacy for over a decade. Reputable world media have recognized us as the largest and most trusted surrogacy agency and fertility clinic."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/the-stranded-babies-of-kyiv-and-the-women-who-give-birth-for-money
Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies.These newborns are not in the nursery of a maternity hospital, they are lined up side by side in two large reception rooms of the improbably named Hotel Venice on the outskirts of Kyiv, protected by outer walls and barbed wire.
They are the children of foreign couples born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers at the Kyiv-based BioTexCom Centre for Human Reproduction, the largest surrogacy clinic in the world. They’re stranded in the hotel because their biological parents have not been able to travel in or out of Ukraine since borders closed in March because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anxious parents check on the children they have not yet met via video calls, and others have sent audio recordings of their voices to soothe the children.