33 men arrested after allegedly selling tiger, leopard skins to undercover police

Three men were arrested yesterday after they had been allegedly caught selling clouded leopard and tiger hides to an undercover officer. Along with three stay leopard kittens, tiger and leopard hides valued at two million baht have been seized by national park officers and police at a resort in Kanchanaburi, which borders Myanmar.
Officers had obtained a tip that illegal wildlife traders have been attempting to promote three clouded leopard hides and a tiger disguise they had obtained from throughout the border in Myanmar. For the bust, an officer went undercover and reportedly negotiated with the merchants, agreeing on a price of two.2 million baht and to transfer a down fee of 20,000 baht to a bank beneath one of the merchants.
The undercover officer met the alleged traders at a resort within the province’s Sangkhla Buri district the place they were arrested by park officers and police from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division. Four tiger and leopard skins had been found within the rented by the men as nicely as three live leopard kittens, stories say.
ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ ราคา , two from Thailand and one from Myanmar, were charged with possession and commerce of protected animal carcasses and face a penalty of as a lot as 10 years in jail and a fantastic up to a million baht. If officers uncover that the animals and skins have been imported into Thailand, they may face extra charges..

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