By Neil Sears

PUBLISHED: 17:02 EST, 13 May 2012 | UPDATED: 03:14 EST, 14 May 2012

A controversial fertility doctor has raked in 25million in a single year.

Mohamed Taranissi and his wife received the colossal sum through their IVF clinic, giving fresh evidence to critics who say that the creation of human life has become a multi-million pound industry.

On Saturday the Daily Mail revealed that a human egg agency has offered thousands of Cambridge university students 750 to donate their eggs.

The 25m man: Mohamed Taranissi earned the vast sum as head of London's most successful fertility clinic

Mr Taranassi, 57, and his second wife Elly Fincham, 53, are the owners of the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre fertility clinic in London. Rod Stewarts wife Penny Lancaster had their son Aiden after treatment there.

Its reputation has helped the couple build a fortune of 45million, including the newly published dividend of 25million they paid themselves in 2010.

Women pay 150 for an initial consultation and 2,500 for a course of IVF, with other procedures and drugs pushing the cost up higher. Customers are attracted by Mr Taranissis impressive listing at the top of pregnancy league tables for woman under 35 and over 40.

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