Hot Model Busted For Keeping Lion And Python In Home

Story ByLee Bullen,Sub EditorJoseph Golder,AgencyCentral European News

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This stunning Iranian model has been arrested by the Turkish police for keeping a lion cub and a pet python in her home in Istanbul.

Famous Iranian model Qazel Yadegari was investigated by the authorities in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul after regularly posting images on social media of her lion cub and pet python.

Reports said that police teams investigating the sale of exotic animals online had been alerted to Yadegari’s social media activity and carried out a raid on her home in Sariyer, Istanbul’s northernmost district.

The police discovered that she had been keeping illegal pets in her house and arrested the model and two colleagues, according to local media.

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The Asiatic lion cub and the python, which had reportedly been smuggled into Turkey, were tranquilised and placed in cages by animal handlers during the police raid.

Meanwhile, the Iranian model and her assistants Mohammad Ali Rezvandoust and Kian Mohammadia were placed under arrest, according to local media.

Yadegari said that she had been keeping the animals as a hobby and that the python had been living with her for a long time.

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The model claimed that she bought the lion cub for 9,000 USD (7,145 GBP) in another country.

The investigation continues.

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