An unusual transaction in a farmer's market led to a black industrial chain of hunting, purchasing, transporting and selling wild animals - The Paper learned from the police in Lanxi City, Zhejiang Province on June 7 that 13 suspects have been arrested Criminal enforcement measures were taken on suspicion of endangering rare and endangered wild animals, illegal hunting, and illegal hunting, acquisition, transportation, and sale of terrestrial wild animals.
During the Spring Festival, when the Forest Police Brigade of the Lanxi City Public Security Bureau and the Market Supervision Bureau were inspecting the farmers' market, they found that the proprietress of an aquatic product stall looked around with evasive eyes, took out a black plastic bag from under the stall and handed it to a man. A middle-aged woman, who quickly took it, turned around and left. The police came forward to check and found that the bag contained a grass owl, a national second-level protected animal. Another bag in the stall contained a "three-have" protected animal (a terrestrial wild animal with ecological importance, scientific value and social value). Animals) South China rabbits, and there are 32 dead South China rabbits in the frozen warehouse.
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After interrogation, Chen and Bao, the couple who run the stall, confessed that they began to purchase hares from "individual customers" who came to sell them in the second half of 2021. Resale, illegal profit of more than 30,000 yuan in more than a year. The police followed the lead and a gang headed by Chen surfaced, including a criminal chain of "hunting-acquisition-transportation-trading". Chen contacted and gathered game dealers through the Internet , purchased illegally hunted wild animals from farmers, and sold them to their subordinates in Hangzhou, Jinhua and other places through bus transportation, face-to-face transactions, etc. The police arrested a total of 13 suspects and seized 47 dead and live wild animals that were illegally hunted. 1 straw owl, and 171 prohibited tools such as animal traps were collected.
