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The 26-year-old man from the central province of Ha Tinh bought the cubs from a Laotian for VND2 million.
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Police seized four tiger cubs on Sunday. |
He offered the cubs for sale on Facebook and a person in Nam Dinh agreed to pay him VND8 million.
Police are holding on suspicion that the man is a member of a wildlife trafficking gang.
Vietnam currently has five tigers in the wild, a sharp drop from 30 in 2011. Tigers in Cambodia have been extinct while in Lao, there are only two wild tigers left.
Vietnam is considered a hotspot for wildlife trading, with wild animal products consumed in the domestic market and exported to other countries at ever-increasing levels.
It is estimated that between 3,500 and 4,000 tons of wild meat is consumed in Vietnam each year.
