Maxim Galkin said he was not familiar with the Director General of the center surrogate motherhood Vladislav Melnikov, who according to media reports, was arrested on charges of child trafficking.
“I don’t know this man. We never crossed paths, did not cooperate. As for surrogacy – fully dealt with the clinic “Mother and child” Mark Kurtser. I said in the clinic, they are also in the process of selecting a surrogate mother for us did not cooperate with this person. They were doing it themselves. So I don’t know where this news. I can’t say anything,” – said Galkin radio station “Moscow Says”.
Earlier it was reported that Miller allegedly became involved in the case on the fact of illegal provision of surrogacy services, said that his center allegedly picked up a surrogate mother for Galkin and Alla Pugacheva. In criminal case, arrested eight people.
Meanwhile, the attorney representing the defendants in the case of trafficking of babies, Igor Trunov, said that among the parents of these children to high ranking officials of foreign countries.
“it’s No secret that in vitro fertilization are not very healthy and elderly people, rarely, but it happens that a child is born with disabilities, and die, but that’s no excuse for mass arrests of the doctors and the deprivation of seven children to their legal parents, among whom high-ranking officials of foreign States”, – said the lawyer of RIA “news”.
Recall, the investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of death of the child the surrogate mother and child trafficking in the city district of Odintsovo.
A boy born to a surrogate mother in December 2019, was under the care of a babysitter in the apartment where there were three children born the same way. Clarifies that the children’s parents are foreigners, they did paperwork for the kids to go with them abroad.
