A passenger who illegally transported to forty poisonous and tortuous snakes was arrested after landing in Bombay, India, Indian customs said on Sunday, June 1.
The man was traveling on a “from Thailand” flight, with snakes, including about forty Indonesian vipers, “hidden in registered luggage,” Customs said in a statement.
The trafficker, whose identity was not revealed, also had three vipers with a spider tail and five Asian turtles. Bombay Customs published photographs of seized animals, including blue and yellow reptiles in a cube.
Other arrests in recent months
In February, they had arrested a passenger in possession of five Siamang gibbons, small monkeys of Indonesia, Malaysian and Thailand forests.
These little creatures, classified among the species threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), were “ingeniously hidden” in a plastic box placed within the sweet bag of the interested part, they had specified.
Between September and November, Bombay Customs also indicated that they had seized twelve live turtles, four coves (color birds in the long peak) and five youth caimanes.
Source: BFM TV
