Before Transaction, Kerinci Jambi Police Arrested Tiger Skin Sellers At Hotels

The Sumatran tiger skin that was secured from a resident of West Sumatra was for trading, Friday (5/5/23). ANTARA/HO.

JAMBI - Kerinci Police Opsnal Team, Jambi arrested a criminal perpetrator of selling Sumatran tiger skin (Panthera tigris sumaterae) who was secured before transacting at a hotel in Sungai Penuh City last night. Kasatreskrim Kerinci Police AKP Edi Mardi Siswoyo said the perpetrator who was arrested had the initials Y (38), a resident of Pesisir Selatan Regency, West Sumatra Province. "The perpetrator was secured in Sungai Penuh City, Kerinci," he explained, quoted from Antara, Friday, May 5. The arrests were made at a hotel in Sungai Penuh City after the team received information that a resident of Pesisir Selatan, West Sumatra (West Sumatra) would conduct animal skin transactions or tigers that clearly violated the law. After an investigation, finally, members of the Kerinci Police's Opsnal Criminal Investigation Unit obtained data and the whereabouts of the person in question were already in Kerinci and tracking was carried out and his whereabouts were found, then only one person was arrested. "The results of the examination and search of the hotel room found evidence in the form of Sumatran tiger skin with a length of approximately two meters," said Edi. The arrest of the perpetrator at the crime scene or crime scene before there will be a protected animal skin transaction. "After being arrested, the perpetrator and the evidence, we secured them to the Kerinci Police Headquarters for further investigation," said AKP Edi Mardi Siswoyo. For his actions, the suspect was threatened according to Law No. 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems with a five-year prison sentence and a fine of Rp. 200 million.

Kerinci Police is currently still developing the case to reveal the network or anyone involved in this case and the suspect is currently undergoing investigation at the Kerinci Police Headquarters, Jambi.