Animals, maxi kidnapping of endangered species

About 17,000 tropical aquatic animals and 246 corals protected by the Washington Convention, which regulates the international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora, were intercepted, in the course of 250 intra-community commercial expeditions, by the Financiers of the Provincial Command of Rome. jointly with officials from the Ministry of Health and Ecological Transition. The operation led to the administrative reporting of 50 companies operating in the aquarium sector.