Police raided a house in Bangkok last week and made a grim discovery: carcasses of two Bengal tigers, one panther, and a fishing cat.
A Thai man arrested at the scene confessed to the crime and explained how he and a Vietnamese national were hired to transport the carcasses from Songkhla Province to a Vietnamese businessman in Laos. The animal smugglers would travel at night in pickup trucks to evade the police. Both men were arrested.
One tiger carcass can fetch up to THB700,000 on the foreign market and each smuggler is paid THB8,000 a time to move the dead animals according to TANN.
Police believe the tiger carcasses were being smuggled from Malaysia to China through Thailand.
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