Former zoo keeper suspects illegal removal of ivory Man arrested for Lao nationality January 14, 19:45
A policeman has been arrested by a policeman who is a former zoo keeper at a zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture and intends to illegally take ivory and other items from Narita Airport that are prohibited by the Washington Convention from international trade. According to the customs caught, he said, "I dug the elephant buried in the park and got ivory."
The arrest was for Lam Own Counselwant, a 27-year-old Lao national and former keeper of Fuji Safari Park, a zoo in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
In July last year, Customs was caught for illegally removing more than 200 items such as ivory, which is banned from international transactions under the Washington Treaty, from Narita Airport by hiding it in a suitcase, etc. Police were arrested on suspicion. That is, he has admitted the charges.
According to customs, the zoo had been working as an elephant keeper for about four years, and had retired before leaving Japan. When I returned home, I was going to decorate my house and sell it to my acquaintances. "
Police and others are looking into further details.
To consider measures to prevent taking out
According to `` Fuji Safari Park '', if a rare animal dies, temporarily bury it in the garden and wait until it becomes a bone, and sometimes make a specimen, so that only keeper etc. can be entered in that place It is becoming.
"Fuji Safari Park" says, "We take this incident seriously. We want to consider measures to prevent taking it out of the park in the future."