Police find snakes guarding company accounts
Boa constrictors, python on top of 'parallel' set of books
05 October, 10:46
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(ANSA) - Belluno, October 5 - Tax police on Friday found snakes guarding the accounts of a northern Italian company they had come to inspect.
Boa constrictors and a python were among the reptiles watching over a "parallel" set of books in the storehouse of a metal-working company near the city of Belluno, they said.
"There were splendid examples of empire boa constrictors, some of them about three metres long, a royal python and another 10 reptiles" in glass cases placed on top of the allegedly falsified accounts, police said.
None of the animals had been reported to forest guards responsible for putting them on the international CITES rare and exotic animals registry, police said.
Rangers and a snake expert were called out from Belluno to remove the snakes so the tax police could get at the books and carry out their inspection.
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/10/05/Police-find-snakes-guarding-company-accounts_7581213.html
Boa constrictors and a python were among the reptiles watching over a "parallel" set of books in the storehouse of a metal-working company near the city of Belluno, they said.
"There were splendid examples of empire boa constrictors, some of them about three metres long, a royal python and another 10 reptiles" in glass cases placed on top of the allegedly falsified accounts, police said.
None of the animals had been reported to forest guards responsible for putting them on the international CITES rare and exotic animals registry, police said.
Rangers and a snake expert were called out from Belluno to remove the snakes so the tax police could get at the books and carry out their inspection.
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/10/05/Police-find-snakes-guarding-company-accounts_7581213.html
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