Monkey Business! Police arrest gang selling Thai monkeys abroad for medical research - 100K each

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Gang trading in monkeys

Daily News reported on the busting of a gang catching and selling Thai monkeys abroad to be "lab rats" in medical research and for "energy" food.

Some were believed to be worth as much as 100,000 baht each.

The case happened in Nakhon Sawan at a tourist area called Khao Nor where Nan, 55, sells monkey treats.

He had heard a commotion and went to investigate and found three men who had tranquilized 9 monkeys with darts.

On seeing him the criminals fled - two were subsequently captured by police and had seven darts with them and food for monkeys. A third escaped.

 

Picture: Daily News

They are in the custody of the Banphot Phisai police in the northern Thai province.

Region 12 vet Phimchanok said that eight of the dazed monkeys were saved but one succumbed to the effects of the tranquilizer dart.

Line chat on the phones of the suspects showed that the men could get as much as 100,000 baht each for the macaques.

Preecha, a phu yai ban, said that people across the border were paying that much to Thais to capture wild monkeys for medical research.

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-02-17

 

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[userabcd]

There seems to be no stopping the evils of humanity and the quest to earn and have governments money to live.

Edited February 17, 2023 by userabcd

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Line chat on the phones of the suspects showed that the men could get as much as 100,000 baht each for the macaques.

Quite the profit margin.

[ignore it]

In an unrelated follow up story,

 

The temple that reported a troop of missing monkeys reported the monkeys are still missing

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"energy" food

I'm going to ignore the lab theory and go with the 'energy food' angle - usual suspects.

[Confuscious]

Ooohhhhhhhhh
They ware selling Monkeys for medical research.
Reading the title, I thought that they were selling THAI PEOPLE for medical research.
I was astonished to read that anybody would be ready to pay 100,000 baht for a Thai national.
You can get them much cheaper nowadays with the right connections.