Law enforcement officers seize the target vessel at sea.
The suspect identified the endangered animals involved at the scene.
The "China Coast Guard" WeChat public account released a message on the evening of the 7th that the Xiamen Coast Guard Bureau successfully cracked a case of smuggling precious animal products, seized 1 fishing boat involved in the case, arrested 3 criminal suspects, and seized more than 110 kilograms of smuggled precious and endangered animal products.
"There are criminals in the jurisdictional areas who attempt to use fishing boats to smuggle chilled aquatic products from abroad and sell them in the domestic market for profit, which contains a large number of precious and endangered species." The reporter learned from the Xiamen Coast Guard Bureau that the bureau had this clue in its work at the end of May this year. In view of the serious and complex circumstances of the case and the severe situation of the epidemic situation abroad, the Xiamen Coast Guard Bureau immediately set up a special case team, held a special meeting to study and deploy the verification of clues, and at the same time strengthened the collection of clues and the mapping of peripheral foundations, focusing on the investigation of fishing vessels operating around Xiamen. Finally, a fishing vessel was locked as a suspect smuggling barge, and the special case team immediately tracked and controlled the target vessel, simultaneously formulated an investigation plan, improved the emergency plan for epidemic prevention and control at sea, and clarified the disposal process of key links such as on-site investigation, escort, isolation and treatment, and disinfection of the place.
On June 10, the Xiamen Coast Guard Bureau obtained the information that the suspect vessel had left the port to go to the designated sea area to connect the smuggled aquatic products, immediately deployed to carry out a maritime investigation operation, and successfully seized the smuggling fishing vessel in the sea off the xiamen port, arrested 3 criminal suspects at the scene, and seized 58 boxes of sharks, pomfrets and other aquatic products involved in the case, totaling 1152.44 kilograms.
After judicial identification, the aquatic products contained more than 110 kilograms of the Lu's hammerhead shark, which is a precious animal listed as a globally endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2008 and listed in Appendix II of the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in 2013.
It was preliminarily ascertained that at the end of May this year, captain Lin Mou and others, driven by economic interests, planned to drive fishing boats out to sea to pick up a batch of smuggled aquatic products and precious animal products from overseas ships, and smuggled them into the fish market after smuggling them into non-customs areas for sale. Lin Mou and others are suspected of smuggling precious animal products, and have now been taken criminal compulsory measures, and the case is being further investigated.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > data: In recent years, the total number of cases involving endangered smuggling has been detected and the total value is nearly 100 million yuan</h1>
In recent years, the Xiamen Coast Guard has always cracked down on the smuggling of precious and endangered wild animals and plants and their products, and has detected 3 cases of endangered smuggling, seizing 250 kg of rhino horn, 2009 kg of small leaf rosewood, 198 kg of white incense wood, and more than 110 kg of Lu's hammerhead shark, with a total case value of nearly 100 million yuan.
(Text/Figure Xiamen Daily reporter Bo Jie correspondent Huang Shaorui Liu Shuqun)