Australian police bust crime gang illegally exporting lizards hidden in chip packets and handbags

Lizards seized by police were due to be exported from Sydney to Hong Kong

Namita Singh
© UK Independent

Police in Australia busted a criminal syndicate planning to illegally export hundreds of lizards worth more than €735,000 to Hong Kong.

Raptor squad detectives in New South Wales were investigating illegal exports of native animals and reptiles when they uncovered nearly 260 native lizards concealed in chip packets, handbags and cereal containers bound from Sydney to Hong Kong.