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    9 months ago

    It’s an excellent outcome for these twins for sure, but holy fuck:

    Tamuna discovered a black market in adoption that stretched across Georgia and went on from the early 1950s to 2005.

    She believes it was run by organised criminals and involved people from all sections of society, from taxi drivers to people high up in the government. Corrupt officials would fake the documents needed for the illegal adoptions.

    “The scale is unimaginable, up to 100,000 babies were stolen. It was systemic,” she says.