A Hong Kong businessman and his company have been charged with providing surrogacy services overseas and advertising them in the city, where such arrangements are illegal.
Harcourt director Alfred Siu Wing-fung appeared in Eastern Court on Monday to face the summary offences charging him with taking part in, and receiving payment for, a surrogacy arrangement.
Surrogacy in Hong Kong is illegal under the Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance. Any promotion of such services for commercial purposes, even if they are not performed locally, is also prohibited.
The company and its manager, Lin Siu-fong, were charged with the same offence.
Police launched an investigation in May last year after receiving a tip-off about a local company which claimed to connect customers with surrogate mothers overseas and provide embryo sex selection services.
Officers posed as customers to gather evidence and later arrested 10 people in connection with the service.
The South China Morning Post confirmed that the current proceedings were in relation to the earlier arrest.
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