Riau Police Chief Major Gen Agung Setya (centre) speaking to the media as smuggled animals, including lion and leopard cubs are displayed during a media conference in Kampar, Riau, Indonesia on Sunday (Dec 15). Indonesian police said they have arrested two men suspected being part of a ring that poaches and trades in endangered animals and seized from them lion and leopard cubs and dozens of turtle. - AP
PEKANBARU (Indonesia): Indonesian police said Sunday (Dec 15) that they have arrested two men suspected of being part of a ring that poaches and trades in endangered animals and seized from them several lion and leopard cubs and dozens of turtles.
One of the suspects, identified only as Yatno, was arrested Saturday (Dec 14) in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, after picking up suspicious boxes from a speedboat at a port in Dumai district, said Andri Sudarmadi, Riau police's chief detective.
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