DutchNews, June 16, 2017
Photo: NVWA.nl |
Government inspectors have removed 105 articles of clothing from shop in
Amsterdam’s exclusive PC Hooftstraat because they include leather made from
protected species, the Volkskrant said on Friday.
The shop, Karmaloog, opened
earlier this year. It generated headlines because of the owners’ boast that it
would be ‘the most exclusive and expensive’ shop in the Netherlands with
jackets costing €100,000.
The items taken by officials include shoes, jackets,
belts, skirts and other accessories made of crocodile, python and anaconda
leather.
The paper says officials first became suspicious last year when a
consignment of skins turned up at Schiphol airport with problematic paperwork.
The package came from Thailand and contained the skins of 12 Siamese
crocodiles.
Cites
Leather from protected species may only be traded in line
with the international Cites treaty. Officials visited the shop in March
and gave the owners three months to come up with documents showing the skins
had been obtained in line with Cites rules.
However, they only managed to come
up with documents for five pairs of shoes, the paper said.
Although the shop is
not named in the official documents, the Volkskrant says one of the pairs of
shoes in photographs supplied to the press – green python leather slip-ons – is
identical to those advertised on the Karmaloog website.
Owner Nezir Yozgat told
the paper in a reaction: ‘all our items are certified and all our products are
legal. We will fight every ruling.’
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