Long jail term for Malaysian ex-police officer caught with Critically Endangered Pangolins
Almost six years after he was caught for illegal possession of 81 pangolins, a former police officer has been sentenced to one of the longest jail terms Malaysia has meted out for a crime involving the world’s most trafficked mammal, reports TRAFFIC.
Datuk Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim, director General of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia (PERHILITAN), the agency responsible for Sharwandy’s arrest and successful prosecution.Pangolins are highly priced in the black market and the cost to traffickers must also be equally high in order to dissuade them, says the report.
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ABOUT THE WILDLIFE TRADE
The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth biggest illegal activity worldwide, behind only arms, drugs and human trafficking, and is often run by the same criminal syndicates.
Source: https://www.traffic.org/news/
