The tech team quickly set up a clever trap. They tricked the tracking system into thinking the tiger was still resting peacefully in the grass where Paul had found him. Meanwhile, investigators traced the digital trail of the tracking signal. The digital footprint didn’t lead to a muddy tent in the jungle. It pointed straight to a private, luxury estate hidden behind high concrete walls in the wealthy suburbs of Kathmandu, three hundred miles away.
The midnight raid that followed caught the criminals completely by surprise. Armed police breached the walls, arrested the operators right at their computer screens, and uncovered a massive illegal warehouse. Inside, they found hidden commercial freezers packed with illegal wildlife goods and a ledger containing the names of international buyers. The dying tiger had unknowingly brought down an entire criminal empire.