Seven tiger cubs were found frozen to death inside a car in a parking lot in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, reported the Vietnamese state media on July 26.
On Thursday, the authorities arrested Nguyen Huu Hue and two other suspects who had allegedly smuggled the seven dead tigers from the neighboring country of Laos, reported the AFP.
The dead animals were found in their car at a parking lot.
“Hue set up a company… which sells building material as a cover for the illegal trading of tigers and wildlife,” Cong An Nhan Dan, the official mouthpiece of the Ministry of Public Security, reported, according to AFP.
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It’s yet not known if the cubs were smuggled from the wild or were sourced from the illegal tiger farms in Laos.
AFP reports that the cubs were meant for local consumption and some were to be smuggled to China.
Most of these tigers are supplied for consumption in China and Vietnam, where they are mostly used for making wine or traditional medicines.
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