DENPASAR, Indonesia
DENPASAR, Indonesia – Indonesian police say they also found geckos and chameleons in the luggage of a Russian tourist who has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Bali.
Andrei Zhestkov was arrested late Friday at Bali’s international airport after security officers found a 2-year-old endangered male orangutan sleeping in a rattan basket in his luggage.
Local police chief Ruddi Setiawan announced Monday that the suspect had fed the animal allergy pills mixed with milk, causing it to lose consciousness. He said authorities also found two geckos and four cameleons in his bags.
He said the suspect, who had planned to return to his home in Vladivostok, faces up to five years in jail and $7,000 in fines for attempting to smuggle wildlife if he is found guilty.
Source: Fox News World
DENPASAR, Indonesia – Authorities say they have arrested a Russian tourist who was attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
Ketut Catur Marbawa from Bali province’s conservation agency says 27-year-old Andrei Zhestkov was captured late Friday at the airport after an X-ray found the 2-year-old male orangutan in a rattan basket inside his luggage.
Marbawa said Sunday that customs officers also found allergy pills, two geckos and five lizards in the man’s suitcase. All animals the animals were alive.
He said that Zhestkok told authorities he deliberately fed the orangutan allergy pills mixed with milk, causing the animal to lose consciousness for up to three hours. He told them he planned to re-dose the animal during a transit in Seoul.
Source: Fox News World
DENPASAR, Indonesia – A court in Bali has sentenced an Australian man and his Indonesian girlfriend to five years and four months in prison each for possessing cocaine.
Presiding Judge Ketut Kimiarsa told the court Wednesday that the panel of judges had exercised leniency in their sentencing, based on both defendants having no prior criminal records and expressing regret for their crime.
Brandon Johnson and his girlfriend, Remi Purwanti, were arrested with 11.6 grams of cocaine separated into 13 plastic bags.
Kimiarsa said the crime was serious because it went against the Indonesian government’s program to combat the spread of narcotics and was damaging to the image of Indonesia’s main tourist destination.
Johnson and Purwanti, who were each fined 800 million rupiah ($57,000) or an additional two months in prison, are not appealing.
Source: Fox News World
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