Police in Hanoi are investigating the origin of the carcass of a tiger they found in a car in Ha Dong District yesterday. At 5 pm Friday a special police team stopped a suspicious Toyota Zace car for examination and caught it carrying the body of a dead tiger. Two men got out of the car and showed some papers to police officers. The car’s driver later fled when these officers were busy stopping other vehicles for examination. The carcass was almost intact, complete with the head, skeleton, skin and sets of teeth. In related news, on October 4, police in northern Phu Tho Province indicted 6 people of a ring that bought and transported a dead tiger and then cook the animal’s bones to make tiger bone glue. The ring, led by 46-year-old Dang Van Quang of Hanoi, was busted on September 22 when they were cooking 286 kg of tiger bones in a remote area in the province’s Viet Tri City.

The meat of the dead tiger seized on September 22 in Viet Tri City, Phu Tho Province (Photo:CAND Online)    The body of the dead tiger found in Viet Tri (Photo: CNND Online) 

The police seized from them 19 blocks of tiger meat, 3 bags of bones of various animals, a bag of turtle shells, along with many knives, hammers, gas cylinders, pressure-cookers and other devices. On July 30 traffic police in central Quang Binh Province caught a speeding car carrying two tiger bodies weighing nearly 200 kg on National Highway 1A in Thanh Trach Commune, Bo Trach District. One of the carcasses was dried and weighed 138 kg, while the other weighed 60 kg and had its skin removed. On September 4, police in Ha Tinh, another central province, found four tiger cubs - all alive - weighing 22.15 kilos in total and 119 pangolins totaling around 424 kilos with no clear origin hidden in a car.

  46-year-old Dang Van Quang of Hanoi, was arrested on September 22 when his ring was cooking 286 kg of tiger bones (Photo: CAND Online)

Two tiger carcasses and fake car number plates were seized by police in Quang Binh on July 30 (Photo: Tuoi Tre)

119 pangolins totaling around 424 kilos found being hidden in the car on September 4, 2012 (Photo: Tuoi Tre)