“This is all terrible! I do not admit guilt. We have performed infertility treatment, and every doctor who deals with IVF (in vitro fertilization. - RT ) is also involved in surrogate mothers. My work ended with the pregnancy of a woman, ”said obstetrician-gynecologist Juliana Ivanova to the commission members.
Her husband, a doctor, Taras Ashitikov, also told members of the PMC that he did not admit guilt.
“I strongly doubt that we are talking about the sale of [children]. But I acted as part of a professional duty. For me, we are talking about ordinary programs, I made them at 400 a year, worked with embryos under a microscope, I did not encounter children at all, like my wife, ”Boris Klin conveys his words.
The obstetrician-gynecologist Lilia Panaioti is most indignant at what is happening, Klin noted.
“I’m a doctor with 30 years of experience, I don’t admit guilt, I will raise the whole community to its feet,” the human rights activist quoted her as saying.
In addition to doctors, Valentin Chernyshova is detained in the IVS in this case, said Klin. She is a former physical education teacher at a college, he added.
“Officially, I worked as an escort - to see a pregnant woman to the hospital, buy clothes, groceries. Once only drove the child to the airport to parents. But they probably had documents, otherwise who would have allowed them to take the child out of the country, ”she said to Klin.
Chernyshova assured members of the PMC that she had nothing to do with paperwork for children.
The arrested doctors complained to human rights activists that after the detention they spent two days without food or sleep. They told the commission that on July 14, at 7 am, investigators came to them at the same time, carried out searches and took them away for interrogation.
In the premises of the Investigative Committee, they, in their own words, were until 2:30 the next night. Then, Wedge continued their story, the detainees were brought to the IVS, but only about 12 hours were released from the autolock and placed in the pits.
Representatives of the IVS administration explained to members of the PMC that on that day there were a lot of detainees, and it is forbidden to enter the isolation ward without inspecting and registering prisoners.
Doctors said, says Klin, that they were sent to the court from the detention center to select a preventive measure, they returned from there about 3:00 on July 16.
“Only in the morning of July 16, they ate for the first time after the arrest,” the doctors told members of the PMC.
Klin added that all the arrestees have not yet received transfers, they have no removable underwear, and Yuliana Ivanova needs medicines in connection with a chronic disease. Lawyers have not yet visited them, although the arrested people were waiting for them on Thursday, the human rights activist added.
The Moscow Basmanny Court on July 16 arrested three more defendants in a case of trafficking in babies from surrogate mothers - Roman Yemashev, Vladislav Melnikov and Kirill Anisimov.