Two men arrested at airport with monkeys in their pants traveling with cats, spiders and eggs
Two of the men were arrested and then found with slender lorises concealed in pouches in their briefs, a customs official at Indira Gandhi International Airport told the BBC.
Traveling from Dubai to Bangkok, the men were frisked by airport security when the “bulge” was discovered.
Another loris was discovered in a dustbin at the Indira Gandhi International airport.
“They had abandoned him as they were unable to carry him,” a senior security official told the news agency.
The passengers, named as Hamad Al-Dhaheri, Mohammed Al-Shamsi and Rashid Al-Shamsi, were handed over to Wildlife and Customs Department for further questioning and were later arrested by customs police.
Authorities were trying to determine the exact origin of the monkeys.
Customs officials recently caught an Indian man at Mumbai’s main airport with 10 turtles in his underwear, which he was trying to smuggle into the city from Bangkok, the Hindustan Times reported last week.
They also seized six Persian cats, three poisonous tarantula spiders and 11 birds eggs from the man and his two accomplices, the report said.
Greater Bush Baby, a type of Loris photo/buecherfresser
