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Three charged in Thailand after lion cub filmed riding in back of Bentley | World News<\/p>\n
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Three people have reportedly been charged with illegal possession of a lion cub after a video of the animal riding in a convertible Bentley in Thailand went viral online.<\/p>\n
The nine-month-old cub was captured wearing a collar, and resting its paws on the edges of the white car as it travelled through the streets of Pattaya.<\/p>\n
The video was posted on TikTok on 24 January and it quickly went viral, having been viewed more than 40,000 times.<\/p>\n
Officials from the police and the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) launched an investigation and found the animal inside a property along with Sawangjit Kosungneon, a Thai woman who is the lion’s registered owner, and Abina Kuruts, a Ukrainian who was reported as the animal’s keeper, according to the Bangkok Post.<\/p>\n
Kosungneon, Kuruts and a 53-year-old Sri Lankan, who was driving the car while the lion cub was in the back, are all facing charges of illegal possession of a wild animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, Prasert Sornsathapornkul, a director at the DNP, was reported as saying.<\/p>\n
The offence carries a prison term of up to a year and or a fine of up to 100,000 baht (just over \u00a32,000).<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: A microchip implanted in the cub showed that it came from a farm in the small province of Nakhon Pathom and ownership had been transferred to Kosungneon, but the paperwork was not yet complete.<\/p>\n The farmer who owned the cub has had a complaint filed against him for possession and transferring wildlife without permission, according to the Bangkok Post, who quoted the director of the DNP.<\/p>\n Thailand’s Wildlife Preservation and Protection Act prohibits a private person from possessing protected wildlife, including big cats, except where the person owned such animal before the act became effective in 1992.<\/p>\n A total of 38 owners have registered possession of 224 lions across the country, according to the Bangkok Post.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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