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Bangkok Post
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Four Indians held on wildlife trafficking charges

Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division display 100 Indian star tortoises, a gibbon and a langur seized from a house in Bang Khunthian district of Bangkok during the arrest of four Indian suspects on Wednesday (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)

Four Indian nationals are being held on charges of trying to smuggle protected wildlife out of Thailand after police seized 100 Indian star tortoises, a gibbon and a langur at a house in Bang Khunthian district of Bangkok.

Officers from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division (NED) apprehended the four men aged between 24 and 53 on Wednesday under arrest warrants issued by the Central Tax Court, Pol Maj Gen Anek Taosuparp, the NED commander, said on Thursday.

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