Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-03-31
Police in
China have recently arrested 24 people suspected of smuggling and selling
products made from rare and endangered animals, including bear paws and pangolin
body parts.
The
Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on Friday that about 4,500
products have been confiscated in police raids across nine provinces.
The value
of the animal products was estimated at more than 10 million yuan (US$1.6
million), it said, without specifying when the arrests and confiscations took
place.
In July
2013, police in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, uncovered a
local restaurant that was purchasing, transporting and selling rare and
endangered animal species and products.
Led by the
clue, police found two suspects, who were identified by their surname Deng and
Li, smuggling rare animal products from overseas, which were then sold and
stored in three places in Nanjing.
The
products in Nanjing were then sold to Shanghai, and the provinces of Hebei,
Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi.
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| A tiger is killed in Leizhou, Guangdong province. (Internet photo) |
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