Mom Kunthear
Phnom Penh Post
RATANAKKIRI provincial authorities have seized 300 kilograms of protected wildlife after searching a car that was abondoned near the Vietnamese border, officials said yesterday.
Nov Dara, deputy police chief of the provincial bureau for combating economic crime, said that police and forestry officials intercepted the car in O’Yadav district on Monday night, but that the driver and any accomplices had bailed out of the vehicle and escaped.
“We followed them in a car and forced them to stop their car, but we were unlucky because we could not arrest the businessmen.
“They escaped but left the car and wild animals at the place,” he said.
He said it was likely that the car was bound for Vietnam, where the live animals would be offered up for sale.
“I don’t know exactly how many people escaped because it was nighttime, but we confiscated all the wild animals and their car,” he said.
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