Representatives of the Nature Conservation Service (Seprona) The Valencian Civil Guard, together with the Central Operational Peripheral Unit (Ucoma), filed a criminal complaint. one of the sons of the well-known Valencian businessman Francisco Ros Casares (died 2014) After 200 taxidermy and two hundred 200 of the mostly mutilated animals tampered with his home originally from Africaheld as hunting trophies.
The seizure of naturalized animals, announced by Cadena Ser yesterday, on Wednesday morning, one of its properties being researched is in Bétera. According to the information reached by this newspaper, some of the animals at homebut most are building used as warehousewithin the huge plot on which both buildings stand.
There are some great value among filled samples, for example African lions, Bengal tigers, white rhino and even giraffesIn addition, dozens elephant tusks. All these examples mentioned, threatened and protected speciesA criminal complaint has been filed against the person who has not been arrested. crime against flora and fauna.
Agents of the Seprona of the Comandancia de València accounted for and inventoryed the animal ‘cemetery’ The son of the ex-president of Valencia CF and owner of a steel empire is treasured in his home and is now a report to confirm the degree of protection by speciesidentify possible crimes investigated by Lliria Court.
secret information
Police operation launched a few months agoAfter the Civil Guard took a accurate information who put them on the road that Ros Casares, a businessman like his father, kept in the house of one of his sons. hundreds of stuffed exotic animal specimens.
Seprona agents, on the advice of Ucoma, launched an investigation and, after confirming the accuracy of the information received, decided to file a request. court order enter the house and confiscate specimens of protected species subjected to taxidermy operations, stayed in the same warehousebut in court deposit.
Most of the animals were They hunted on safari in Africathere was, however native fauna specimens, such as deer, elk or wild boar.
Alicante’s Seprona has already dealt a heavy blow to the illegal trade in protected species three years ago by disbanding three illegal taxidermy workshops and confiscating more than 200 specimens of naturalized protected species including African lion, white rhino, tiger bengal . , hippo, African crocodile and giraffe.
this Operation ‘Taxideralia’, Within a framework such as developed in Bétera Plan against wildlife smuggling managed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Seprona, authorized the investigation of six people. Four of these, residents of Elx, Alicante, Aspe and Villafranqueza, were charged with committing crimes against fauna, while the other two, residents of Alicante and Murcia, were administratively rather than criminally responsible.