A couple arrested in Bangkok with 19 animal skins has confessed to selling talismans made from Asiatic golden cat parts including skins and oil.
Officers from the Natural Resources and Environment Crime Suppression Division arrested Phatcharapha Prasongdee and her husband Sitthichai Boonlai, both 30 years old, at a house in Lat Phrao district on Friday.
In the couple’s house were many Asiatic golden cat parts body parts, including two heads, one tail, 19 skins, six tiger skin talismans and 16 bottles of tiger oil, according to Pol Maj Gen Watcharin Phusit Saturday.
The arrests came after police started looking into a Facebook page selling carcasses and other parts of protected Asiatic golden cats.
Investigators traced the administrators of the page to a house in the Lat Phrao district and obtained arrest warrants for illegal trade in wildlife and possessing carcasses of…
