Japanese bug smuggler buggered
World’s most wanted butterfly smuggler arrested at Los Angeles airport
Crisscross – News – Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 13:46 EDT
A Japanese man, said to be the most wanted butterfly smuggler in the world, was arrested Monday at Los Angeles International Airport on federal charges of trafficking numerous endangered butterfly species …..Hisayoshi Kojima, 55, an antiques dealer from Kyoto, was arrested ….Customers allegedly paid Kojima between $8,000-$10,000 for male and female pairs and individual butterfly specimens that are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,..more…
This sounds so damn funny that it’s hard to worry about the real problem of self-professed-love-of-Nature Japanese being at the front of the endangered species trade. Japan’s largest pet store in my old neighboorhood in Yokohama OPENLY sells endangered species such as galapagos turtles shamelessly and with total impunity from the do-nothing Japanese police. Arrrg.
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