Cops find 103 pangolins in truck at Thai border

PADANG BESAR: Police on routine duty at the border checkpoint here found 103 pangolins hidden in a Thai-registered cargo truck bound for southern Thailand on Tuesday.

ENDANGERED ANIMAL: Acting Supt Hadini (right), assisted by a sergeant, holding up one of the seized pangolins in Padang Besar.

Classified as endangered, the pangolins were found crawling in a huge box in the truck. They were seized and handed over to the state wildlife authorities here.

The 28-year-old Thai truck driver has been detained for investigation as he was transporting prohibited goods.

Police manning the checkpoint stopped the truck as it was found to be overloaded.

Besides the pangolins, worth some RM10,000 on the Thai black market, the police also uncovered 54 plastic bags holding 540kg of unprocessed palm oil, a controlled item, valued at RM1,080.

Padang Besar OCPD Acting Supt Hadini Baseri, who confirmed the case, said this was the first time this year that the district police had uncovered pangolins during routine duty at the checkpoint.

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