A Taiwanese nutrient blogger has been fined $ 18,500 for fake and eating a heavy white shark in a video post online . The blogger , who goes by the name Tizi was identified by officials as Jin , who read she had bought the shark on an Alibaba - owned shopping site Taobao for 7,700 kwai ( $ 1,141 ) .
The blogger is known for stake extreme food videos , showing her eating animals like crocodile and ostriches , and gained 7.8 million followers on Douyin for postingmukbang videos , in which influencers film themselves participating in extreme eating challenges .
When authorities first begin investigating Jin in August last twelvemonth , she claimed that she had bought the great white shark legally , and tell theSouth China Morning Post , “ These the great unwashed are talking trumpery . ” She had claimed in the video that the shark was “ bred in incarceration ” and was “ edible , ” but an editorial by The Paper , a state - run news site , said there were inconsistencies with Jin ’s claim .
Photo: Ramon Carretero (Shutterstock)
“ It can not be excluded that there is a pitch-dark grocery store , ” The Paper said according to UK - basedThe Times . “ After all , to send a big shark from the coastal region to Nanchong [ an inland city more than 1,100 miles away ] , it requires coordination . ”
Investigators identified the shark in her picture as a peachy Andrew Dickson White by desoxyribonucleic acid testing the leftover tissue and the Nanchong City Market Supervision Bureau sound out in itsreportthat the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural affair valued the shark at 25,000 Mongol dynasty ( $ 3,704 ) .
Jin was fin 125,000 yuan , or about $ 18,500 . Local media reports say authorities had already identified and arrested the the individuals who sold Jin the shark last year .
Screenshot: TikTok/Tizi
swell white sharks are a protected species in China under the Wild Animal Protection Law , which prohibit anyone from carry , buying , and sell them , and violators can receive sinewy fines or up to ten years in prison .
These sharks are considered to be at high risk of extinction , according to the World Wildlife Foundation ( WWF ) which has report that years of citizenry hound them for their fins and teeth have significantly decreased the universe .
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