Reward: Wanted for illegal trade in birds and animals

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Reward: Wanted for illegal trade in birds and animals

 

I pass on the following appeal for assistance or information from the German

bird protection organisation Komitee gegen den Vogelmord e.V. (Committee

against Bird Slaughter)

 

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Dear colleagues & friends,

 

The German police and my organisation are looking for any information

regarding the abode or residence of Mr. Victor Hubert FRANCK, a criminal

German animal-smuggler who was condemned to three years in prison by a court

in Frankfurt/Germany in January 2001. He was jailed especially because of

illegal trade in rare parrots, primates, big cats, reptiles and birds of

prey from all over the world.

 

FRANCK was the head of an international network of trappers, exporters, zoos

and offered incredible numbers of extremely rare animals from South america,

Africa, Asia and Russia (e.g. Gorillas, Orang-Utans, Komodo-Waran, Ara

couloni, rare Kolibris and birds from Peru). A charity for the conservation

af animals called " FUNDACEF " (Fundacion Cèsar Franck) was founded by FRANCK

and was used as a camouflage-organisation to hide the illegal trade of its

chairman, Mr.FRANCK who filled his own banc-account with hundreds of

thousands of EURO from the illegal animal-deals. Branches of FUNDACEF were

also founded in Peru, Brasil and Chile.

 

Shortly after the court´s decision he diappeared and is on the run now for

more than 4 years. In the last months the Komitee received information from

different sources that FRANCK has setup his residence outside Germany.

Unfortunately no more details are available up to today. Because of the big

international aspect of his animal deals he surely has contacts to all parts

of the world and could be everywhere.

 

The fact that he travelled often to Brazil, Chile and Peru and that his wife

is from Peru are indicators that he may have he escaped to South America,

but that´s just a unsolid guess. FRANCK speaks good Spanish and Portuguese

as well as English. He is about 170cm tall and his age is 69 years. You can

find a picture from Mr.FRANCK on the german " wanted " -poster which is

attached as a pdf-file to this email**. For any information leading to the

arrest of Mr.FRANCK my organisation put a reward of 3000 USD.

 

 

 

(**The wanted poster is online at

http://www.proact-campaigns.net/infoandlinks/wanted_victor_franck.html )

 

If you have any information about Mr.FRANCK or if you need any more details,

material and footage on his illegal activities please do not hesitate to

contact me. Even the smallest hint and also old traces can help. Please help

us to bring this criminal animal-dealer into prison.

 

Thank you very much for your help and cooperation

 

 

Axel Hirschfeld

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Komitee gegen den Vogelmord e.V.

Aktionsgemeinschaft für Tier- und Artenschutz Bundesgeschäftsstelle Auf dem

Dransdorfer Berg 98, 53121 Bonn, Germany

 

Tel.: +49 228 66 55 21

Fax : +49 228 66 52 80

Email: komitee

 

Internet:

http://www.komitee.de

 

http://www.artenschutzbrief.de