The couple was arrested to sell exotic cats, including protected species such as white tigers

Spanish police said on Monday that they had arrested two suspected people to sell exotic cats online, including protected species such as white tigers and bumas, and they confiscated 19 sectors in the operation.

The police said in a statement that the officers arrested the spouses on the island of Marca, where they are suspected of raising the desert scents and men, a wild cat home in Africa, as well as the hybrid species that were created by crossing these strains with home cats. According to Derika Daily BulletinThe suspects are Russian.

More investigations found that its activities were just a “side of the iceberg” for an international smuggling of protected species such as white tigers and black leopards “that include breeders, transformers and veterinarians. press release.

They added, “Most of the animals offered for sale came from countries such as Russia, Blasusia and Ukraine to calm the European Union,” they added.

The police suspect the animals to the European Union via Poland from Belarus, then they were presented via the mass with false documents.

Among the other types offered by the couple for sale on their social media accounts, European fractures, passionate, and Puma. Officials released several photos Show cats in packages and officers Evidence.

The police said the suspects offered a cloudy tiger, which is one of the most rare cats and became in the world, at a price of 60,000 euros ($ 68,000).

The officers also seized Caracal, the desert Lynx known as the distinctive long ear cover, as well as two employees and 16 of the hybrid section.

They also seized more than 40 animal passports from Russia, Belarus and China as part of the operation.

Police said that attempts to generate and maintain strange cats because pets are widely spread in Russia and Ukraine, and the trend has expanded to other countries.

“These species require a large space,” police said. “Moreover, it is very aggressive and can pose a danger to people or other animals, so many people end up getting rid of these samples.”