Who exactly is Mitsutoki Shigeta?
Almost two weeks after a raid on a condominium in Lad Phrao revealed what authorities described as a "baby factory", details remain scant about the 24-year-old Japanese businessman's background and why he wanted to father more than a dozen children to surrogate mothers.
Mr Shigeta has fled the country, boarding a flight to Macau shortly after the raid, and has not been seen since.
He has now been linked to 15 babies born to surrogate mothers in Thailand, and is also believed to have engaged surrogates in India. At least three of the infants born here have already been taken out of the country, their whereabouts unknown.