In 2016, a Japanese newspaper reported that top Chinese officials were extracting eggs from their wives, fertilising them, then having them implanted in women in Japan. The loophole here is that Japanese law does not regulate surrogacy, and lists the surrogate as mother on the child’s birth certificate, thus making the child eligible for Japanese citizenship. A corrupt official can therefore transfer his wealth to an apparently unrelated Japanese child, with no one realising that the child is his son or daughter.
