The animals being kept frozen in a spongy box including one langur and four monkeys were found on the truck driven by Le Hong Quan who lives in Ha Tinh Province’s Huong Son District.
The dead rare wild animals was found on the truck
The truck was stopped when it was running through Nghe An Province’s Thanh Chuong District. Quan failed to show the origin certificate for the animals.
At the police station, Quan said that he bought the batch from Laos for sale in Vietnam. The police are investigating the case.
Last year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued a new directive instructing authorities and law enforcement agencies across the country to take urgent measures to combat the illegal trade in wildlife.
The PM urged provincial and city authorities to scale up their efforts to tackle wildlife crime by instructing relevant agencies to “monitor, investigate and apply serious punishment to those involved in illegal trade of ivory and rhino horn, as well as inspect craft villages, processing workshops, souvenir shops in tourist spots, airports, seaports, and traditional medicine shops.”
