Chapter 573 This is not a rescue operation, but a struggle for interests!
"Are you crazy?" Gouda Takeshi didn't even use honorifics, but directly used "you". "You played me a paragraph about the reasons and purpose of protecting animals, and you asked me to suspend the hunting season and arrest the second-ranked contestant?"
"Director Matsumoto, don't you know how popular this program is recently? Over 100 million people around the world are watching it, and tens of millions of people in China know about it. Every day, over 10 million viewers sit in front of their TVs or use their phones!"
"This is no longer a small entertainment program organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department! It is our reputation. Let alone suspicion, even if there is solid evidence, it will not work!"
"No, Mr. Gouda." Matsumoto Kiyonaga said in a serious tone, "The words just now are the purpose of Tiangra's external publicity."
The company is incredibly large, with operations in almost every continent, from America to Europe to Asia, except Antarctica.
They use the principle that business is protection to purchase hunting licenses all over the world and carry out a series of legal activities.
It’s not that wild animals cannot be bought and sold, but they must be bought and sold legally and in compliance with regulations.
However, legal trade has two major practical problems: one is the high taxes and fees, and the other is the small quantity. Driven by huge profits, these people don't care about circular development.
Even during this hunting season, Japanese officials had dealings with Tianagra.
"There is an intersection? How come I didn't know about it?" Gotada Takeshi was dumbfounded.
"This has nothing to do with the Metropolitan Police Department. It's the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries's activity. They sold all the black bear carcasses they hunted to Tiangra. It's normal that Team Leader Gouda didn't know about it." Matsumoto Seinaga explained, "But it doesn't matter."
"Tiangra has several clubs and auctions under its umbrella. It maintains friendly exchanges with TNC (The Nature Conservancy) and organizes many activities, claiming that hunting is also a means of ecological protection."
But the only problem is.
"Please look at this again." Matsumoto Kiyonaga handed the second video to Goda Takeshi.
The content of this video is relatively simple.
Tian Gelie was blown up.
An undercover agent attended the annual meeting of the Safari Club International in Reno, Nevada , a trophy-incentive hunting event where wealthy individuals can purchase the opportunity to kill large game such as elephants, lions, leopards or rhinos.
Once the incident was disclosed, it caused an uproar.
This year, tianusGra suffered a heavy blow. Although it promptly severed its ties with its clubs and fired a large number of employees, claiming that it was "outsourced", "unaware" and "lax in supervision", it was still seriously damaged.
"Please look at this list again."
Takeshi Gouda had already expected this, and sure enough, he saw Benson Guy on it.
"According to what I have found out so far, Bosen Guy had already joined Tiangra before this incident happened, but only for a short time, less than half a year. He was then pushed out because of this incident and was later sentenced to ten months in prison."
"But I heard that someone saw Bosen three months after the incident, but Tiangra explained that they looked similar, which triggered another wave of public opinion offensive, believing that it was Tiangra who provided the bail."
Gotian Wu was speechless. He had never expected that the seemingly kind old man actually had such rich experience.
There are three major illegal trades in the world. The first is drug smuggling, the second is arms smuggling, and the third is wildlife trafficking.
According to data released by the U.S. State Council, wildlife smuggling is second only to drugs and arms, with an annual transaction volume of up to 10 billion to 20 billion U.S. dollars.
According to relevant reports, 50,000 primates, 140,000 African ivory tusks, 10 million reptile skins, 15 million mammals, 350 million tropical fish, and more than 100,000 tons of rhino horns are illegally traded worldwide every year, with profits reaching 10 billion U.S. dollars per year .
Among them, the annual trade volume of smuggling endangered animals is at least US$2 billion to US$3 billion.
The data given by John Scanlon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), is that the illegal trade in species listed in CITES is worth about 20 billion US dollars each year, but the illegal trade in all wildlife is worth about 200 billion US dollars each year.
The amount is staggering.
These figures undoubtedly prove one thing: the wildlife smuggling trade has formed a complete industrial chain, connecting people of different skin colors and cultures around the world, making it as simple as buying and selling ordinary products.
But Berson Gay turned out to be one of them. Even decades later, he changed his appearance and appeared in public in a way that no one expected.
It has been more than ten years since the incident with Tiangra, and no one remembers Borson Guy anymore. Even if they still remember him, the changes over the past decade make it difficult to recognize the vigorous hunter as the old man in his fifties today.
Matsumoto Kiyonaga didn’t know whether Tiangra was innocent or not, or whether there was really poor supervision, but Bosen Guy was definitely not a good person!
Even Matsumoto Kiyonaga suspected that Tiangra himself had a tainted background, and perhaps the purpose of cutting off the tail was just to transfer a group of his subordinates from the open side to the secret side.
However, since there was no evidence, Matsumoto Kiyonaga was just thinking about it.
Unfortunately, Matsumoto Kiyonaga and Goda Takeshi lacked some insight after all. If they could read the name of tianusGra backwards - Gratianus.
Gratian, the eldest son of Valentinian I, the emperor of the western Roman Empire, was named Augustus by his father at the age of 8, and his teacher was the poet Decimus Magnus Ausonius.
He loved hunting all his life. It was not only a hobby but also a way of life. In the end, he lost his empire because of it.
"But what does this have to do with Dolphin Bay?" After talking for a long time, Takeshi Gouda still didn't understand.
Even if Benson really has a lot of dirty laundry, why should he be arrested? Wouldn't it be better to turn a blind eye?
It’s better to leave matters like the Messenger of Justice to others; it has nothing to do with them.
Matsumoto Kiyonaga gritted his teeth and said, " Because these are the people who are helping Richard! We have never been able to catch them!"
Matsumoto Kiyonaga finally figured it out.
It is obvious that this is what was done by Berson and the gang behind him.
How could a guy who started out by hunting wild animals forget the sweetness he has tasted?
"Their ultimate goal is to make us condemned by the international community and force us to give up catching dolphins under pressure from public opinion. Then, a large number of wild dolphins that are not caught will eventually become theirs!"
Matsumoto Kiyonaga said confidently that he had been kept in the dark and Richard had also been deceived.
Interests are about supply and demand.
If no one captures it, will the demand disappear?
Impossible, the demand will only become greater and the price of dolphins will be even higher!
This group of animal traffickers have spotted this point, just like merchants slandering their competitors for having quality problems with their products, they want to monopolize this market!
What Taiji Town has to face is not a rescue operation at all, but a group of sharks that smell blood, a group of more greedy monsters.
This is clearly a struggle for interests!
"We must protect the interests of Taiji Town and cannot let them succeed!"
"Goda Takeru-kun, please, even if you don't suspend the hunting season, you must arrest Bosen and find out who is behind them !"
