Arrested subject hiding 2 frozen tigers

(Baonghean.vn) - The Environmental Crime Investigation Police Department (PC49) of the Provincial Police has just broken up case 106H, arresting a case of storing two frozen tigers.

On the morning of October 28, information from the Environmental Crime Investigation Police Department (PC49) of the Provincial Police said that they had handed over Le Van Duc (1990) and Nguyen Thi Que (born 1968), both residing in Dien Lam commune, Dien Chau district, along with two frozen tigers to Dien Chau District Police for handling according to their authority.

Subject Duc with evidence at Dien Chau district police.

Duc was detained for investigation of the act of "Illegal trading of rare wild animals".

Previously, on the afternoon of October 27, after nearly 2 months of collecting documents and evidence, PC49 inspected Ms. Nguyen Thi Que's family and discovered in Ms. Que's freezer a whole tiger weighing 37kg, a part of a tiger weighing 21kg and a tiger head weighing 6kg.

The two frozen tigers at Mrs. Que's house were identified as belonging to Le Van Duc, who had asked him to hide them. Duc could not produce documents proving their origin.

Working with the investigation agency, Duc initially confessed that after buying the butchered tiger in Laos, he would hide it in a passenger bus running the Laos-Vietnam route to Nghe An to sell. To avoid detection by the investigation agency, Duc sent the butchered tiger to Ms. Que's house.

Evidence of the case.

Currently, PC49 Nghe An and Dien Chau district police are continuing to expand the investigation into the origin of the two frozen tigers that Duc hid at Ms. Que's house.

According to the Vietnam Center for Nature Education (ENV), Indochinese tigers are protected under Decree 160/2013/ND-CP, Decree 32/2006/ND-CP and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Accordingly, hunting, trapping, captivity, slaughtering, transporting, trading or advertising tigers and tiger products are violations of the law./.

Nam Phuc