Summary
Eight doctors in Russia have been arrested for allegedly running a black-market baby ring, selling at least 13 newborns to foreign couples while fabricating medical records to claim the buyers were infertile. The medics, including three chief physicians, are accused of earning £510,000 by using assisted reproductive technologies to cultivate embryos and arrange births for sale between 2018 and 2020. They now face up to 15 years in prison for child trafficking, with the fate of the sold children, currently aged between five and seven, still uncertain.
