China News Service, Kunming, February 29 (Miao Chao) A reporter learned from the Yunnan Provincial Higher People’s Court on the 29th that the Kunming Intermediate People’s Court walked into Pei’s mother’s room and saw Cai Xiu and Cai Yi standing in the room. Mother Pei, on the other hand, was lying motionless on the bed with her eyes closed and covered with quilt. Yesterday, the original verdict was upheld in accordance with the law, and the defendant Si Mou who illegally transported 146 Alexander parrots, a second-level national protected animal, was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined 30,000 yuan.
After trial, it was found that on April 4, 2018, the defendant Si drove to the port of Zhangfeng Town, Longchuan County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, received a batch of Alexander parrots, and then transported them to the cargo department of Tengchong Tuofeng Airport , and used someone else’s ID card to go through the shipping procedures, and sent the parrot from Tengchong to Chengdu via Kunming.
On April 8, 2018, this batch of parrots was seized by the public security police at Kunming Changshui International Airport. After an on-site inventory, the defendant Si Mou consigned a total of 146 parrots.
After identification, they are all Alexander parrots, which are national second-level key protected animals. They are listed in the appendix of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and are worth RMB 1,460,000.
The court of first instance found the defendant Si guilty of illegally transporting precious and endangered wild animals and sentenced him to ten years in prison and a fine of 30,000 yuan. After the verdict was announced, the defendant Si Mou filed an appeal; the Kunming Intermediate People’s Court heard the second instance and ruled in accordance with the law to reject the appeal and uphold the original verdict. (End)