Overview

• Officers from Crimea and Tyumen, with support from the National Guard, detained the Tyumen resident, according to Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk.
• About 20 families reported transferring funds for a surrogate arrangement, including one case in 2024 that totaled more than 340,000 rubles for preparatory expenses.
• Investigators say the suspect solicited money via social networks and messengers for tests and travel, sent counterfeit receipts, then cited medical contraindications and cut off contact.
• Searches recovered documents, bank cards, and a mobile phone with data indicating forged checks and medical certificates, and the suspect was charged under Article 159 and placed under home arrest.
• Similar complaints from several regions were merged into a single proceeding, while separately a Crimean court ordered two-month custody for four women detained on terrorism charges, the regional FSB said.