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How Japanese businessman Mitsutoki Shigeta fathered 16 surrogate babies

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Shigeta left Thailand when the story broke. Photo: SCMP

Shigeta hired surrogacy scouts and a fertility doctor in Bangkok.

The doctor's fertility clinic handled implantation of the embryos.

The clinic handled prenatal care and deliveries of the babies spread out at nine Bangkok hospitals. The babies, all born via caesarean section, include four sets of twins.

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Newborns were taken to a Bangkok condominium owned by Shigeta, where nannies cared for them.

Birth certificates were issued from at least five district offices in Bangkok.

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The babies' names were registered at the address of Shigeta's Bangkok condominium.

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