Plodprasop released on bail in alleged tiger export case

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012
Plodprasop released on bail in alleged tiger export case

The Ratchadapisek Criminal Court Wednesday granted a Bt120,000 bail release to Minister of Science and Technology Plodprasop Suraswadi, who was accused of authorising the export of 100 tigers to a Chinese zoo in defiance of the animal exchange law in 2002

 

The lawsuit accused Plodprasop, then the Royal Forestry Department chief, and senior forestry official Manop Laoprasert for authorising the export of Sri Racha Tiger Zoo’s 100 tigers to Sunya Zoo in China from September 9December 24, 2002, without persuing the legal criteria, procedure and conditions. 
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