Police officers of the Orenburg region recently detained a truck, where, under the guise of cabbage, they transported rare turtles listed in the Red Book, worth 7.7 million rubles.
“We are talking about endangered Central Asian turtles,” said Irina Volk, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee. The Volvo driver where the animals were, said he had no idea where they came from.
The turtles were housed in an empty building of the Orenburg University, where they were looked after by students and teachers for a month and a half, and then taken to Kazakhstan - their natural habitat.
