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Vietnam hotel boss nicked for buying 303kg dismembered tiger to make bone glue

Vietnam hotel boss nicked for buying 303kg dismembered tiger to make bone glue

Saturday, January 24, 2015, 14:22 GMT+7

Vietnamese police have arrested the director of a hotel in the northern province of Bac Kan for illegally procuring a large dead tiger, an endangered wild species, to make bone glue.  

Colonel Trieu Dinh Hoa, chief of the province’s anti-environmental crime police department, has recently confirmed the arrest of Nguyen Van Duoc, 51, director of the Bac Kan Trading and Hotel Co. Ltd., news website Dan Tri reported on Wednesday.

The colonel added that Duoc was found purchasing the tiger which had been dismembered to make tiger bone paste.

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