Madrid – The Spanish police have arrested two people in relation to the sale of exotic felines On the Internet.
The authorities confiscated 19 animals, including a Caracal and two servals, in an operation in Manacor, on the Balearic Island of Mallorca, the Civil Guard said in a statement on Thursday.
More than 40 irregular animal passports from countries such as Russia, Belarus and China were also found.
The operation began in March last year when the Civil Guard realized a couple in Palma de Mallorca They were raising servals, cubes and hybrids with domestic cats to sell them using social networks.
It is alleged that the suspects offered for sale Tigres Blancos, cloud leopard – For which they were asking for 60,000 euros ($ 68,000) – Eurasian linxesHyenas, black leopards and pumas.
Attempts to raise and possess this type of cats as pets are widespread in Russia and Ukraine, and the trend has begun to be imitated in other countries, the authorities added.
Animals will be transferred to a rescue and rehabilitation center for exotic mammals in Alicante, in the east Spain.
