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The Czechs may be released on bail, Kreuter said. Czech Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova said the two men, Emil Kucera, 52, and biologist Petr Svacha, 51, face up to seven years in prison if found guilty of illegal collection of insects. Kucera and Vacha said the area where they collected the insects was not marked Vodafone fights $2bn tax claim ...
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Indian rocket blasts into orbit ... as a national park and that nearby were grazing and somebody was chopping down trees. According to the Indian paper Statesman, range officers confiscated several rare butterflies and bugs and the collecting equipment in the Singalila national park near Darjeeling in northeast India from Kucera and Svacha. The Czechs claim they were unaware of the Indian wildlife rules and collected the insects only for research, the daily writes, estimating the value of the collected insects at some 10,000 to 15,000 rupees, or 3600 to 5400 crowns per insect. Smuggling of animals and plants is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), signed by the Czech Republic in 1992. Kreuter said he was optimistic over their release. A petition in support of the Czechs has been signed by 525 people. It was delivered to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee of West Bengal, where Czechs are being detained. (USD1=14.992 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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