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Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks
Peruvian authorities seized more than 3,000 tarantulas hidden inside dirty socks in three suitcases at Lima's Jorge Chávez international airport. The spiders were being transported to Germany by two German nationals and a Polish citizen and could have fetched an estimated €1.5m. The suspects were detained by environmental crimes police and face criminal proceedings.