TWO THAI surrogate mothers told police yesterday they were instructed to lie to the courts during adoption hearings – to say that their babies were conceived during affairs with the Japanese man at the heart of a surrogacy scandal.

The unnamed women said they testified to the courts that they could not keep the babies as they were already married, and that they wanted to give them to Japanese father Mitsutoki Shigeta, who they believed could afford to take care of the children, based on his claim that he owned a finance company in Japan.

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