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Man receives six-year jail term for transnational wildlife trading

The Hanoi People’s Court handed down a jail sentence of six years to Nguyen Huu Hue, born in 1967 in the central province of Nghe An, for illegally transporting and trading frozen tiger cubs.
Man receives six-year jail term for transnational wildlife trading ảnh 1 Nguyen Huu Hue, Phan Van Vui and Ho Anh Tu (Source: cand.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – TheHanoi People’s Court on January 15 handed down a jail sentence of six years to  Nguyen Huu Hue, born in 1967 in the centralprovince of Nghe An, for illegally transporting and trading frozen tiger cubs.

Hue's accomplices Phan Van Vui, 35; and Ho Anh Tu, 29, who are also residing inNghe An, were sentenced to 5 years in prison for each.  

At the end of July last year, Hue and his accomplices were arrested while illegallytransporting seven frozen tiger cubs which were declared to originate from afarm in Laos.

Hue has been known as the head of a ring specializing in transnationally tradingand transporting tigers and other endangered and rare wild animals for manyyears, but with his sophisticated tricks, Hue repeatedly escaped from criminal charges.

According to a report on wildlife violations and law enforcement in Vietnamfrom 2013-2017 conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Departmentof Criminal Justice Statistics and Information Technology at the SupremePeople’s Procuracy, Vietnam recorded more than 1,500 wildlife crimes, seizingover 41,300 kg of wildlife specimens and products, from January 2013 toDecember 2017.

Some 1,460 people have reportedly violatedregulations on wildlife protection, of whom 432 were brought to trial withcriminal charges./.
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