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Indian Man Caught At Airport Trying To Smuggle Controlled Wildlife


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by TNR Staff 

 

A YOUNG Indian man was caught trying to smuggle six types of controlled wildlife totalling 17 of them at Suvarnabhumi Airport August 16, Matichon newspaper said.

 

At 11 p.m.  Mr. Prasert Sonsathapornkul, director of the Wildlife and Plant Protection Division (under CITES Convention) was alerted by security officials at this airport that an X-Ray scan at the international departure checkpoint had found creatures in one of the suitcases.

 

Subsequently the airport’s wildlife checkpoint officials together with others from the animal quarantine station and customs inspectors checked the suitcase.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/08/17/indian-man-caught-at-airport-trying-to-smuggle-controlled-wildlife/

 

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1 minute ago, law ling said:

1. From linked article:

 

a desert fox, a raccoon, eight marmoset monkeys, two green skinks, three monitor lizards, and two albino pythons. 

 

... some of those, like the marmosets  are not even native here.

 

2. Good to see that checked-in luggage (assuming that's what it was) is x-rayed here.

What was he doing, stocking a zoo back home. Skinks of all things!

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6 hours ago, Joseph98765 said:

So if the parrot fish Tik Twater gets 5 years? how much this M. <deleted>!??

Well the tik tocker has not got 5 years, or even sentenced yet. And I guess as the Indian didn't kill anything, unlike the tik tocker, it could well be a substantial fine, deported and black listed perhaps. We shall just have to wait and see.

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3 minutes ago, RandiRona said:

Was he so dumb or a fortune teller told him that today is his lucky day to not worry about X ray scan?

Send him to Zoo...he is such a specimen.

 

 

 

Possibly to be fair to him he is so used to putting live ducks, chickens and geese into the overhead locker on his previous internal Indian flights he never gave much thought to what he shouldn't do here ????

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6 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Why.....??

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Money, like always. Wildlife trafficking is extremely profitable, the big boys earn mega-bucks with it, and the risks are relatively low. And Thailand is a trafficker’s dream, because literally everybody can be bribed to look the other way.

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14 hours ago, webfact said:

the animal quarantine station and customs inspectors checked the suitcase.

From the link to TNR:-

 

"Within his suitcase were found a desert fox, a raccoon, eight marmoset monkeys, two green skinks, three monitor lizards, and two albino pythons. They were hidden in plastic baskets with the rest of the suitcase filled with food and snacks"

Must have been a large suitcase??

 

 

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7 hours ago, Excel said:

Well the tik tocker has not got 5 years, or even sentenced yet. And I guess as the Indian didn't kill anything, unlike the tik tocker, it could well be a substantial fine, deported and black listed perhaps. We shall just have to wait and see.

if we have a follow up story on here !!!

 

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17 hours ago, aussienam said:

Low life smugglers.  Often they go for the protected, endangered species which fetch more money overseas.  

Could be for a private collector,  could be for Chinese medicine garbage, who knows.   Poor animals at the hands of a###oles.  Hope he spends time in a cage for a few years.

"Hope he spends time in a cage for a few years."

 

Agreed, A very long time in a very small cage!

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