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Officers uncover illegal animal trading syndicate
Wahyoe Boediwardhana , The Jakarta Post , Malang | Thu, 11/05/2009 8:18 PM | National
A joint team comprised of East Java Police officers and members of an NGO arrested a man allegedly involved in an illegal animal trading syndicate in Walikukun district, Ngawi, East Java, and confiscated 38 protected animals.
Campaign officer from ProFauna Indonesia Radius Nursidi said the officers had surveyed the Walikukun forest prior to the seizure.
“We received reports from residents that there were many animals ready to be sold in the area. We then passed ourselves off as buyers and negotiated the prices with the suspect,” Radius said.
He added that the officers were brought to the middle of the forest where they discovered cages filled with animals protected under the 1990 Natural Conservation Law.
“We then brought the animals to the provincial headquarter in Surabaya as evidence,” he said.
The suspect said the animals belonged to people who had managed to escape during his arrest.
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