Senior citizen jailed, slapped with RM206,000 in fines for possessing meat of protected species

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KOTA KINABALU: A senior citizen has been sentenced to a year's jail and fined a total of RM206,000 for illegal possession of protected wildlife.

Chung En Kin, 66, faces additional jail time if he fails to pay the fines for the three offences committed in 2019.

According to the court, Chung was sentenced to a year's jail and fined RM150,000 in default an additional one year’s imprisonment for possessing 36.10kg of banteng meat on the first charge.ALSO READ:On the second count, Chung was fined RM19,000 in default three months' jail for possessing the carcasses of five large flying foxes .

He said if no stern action is taken, animals would continue disappearing from Sabah while the state’s image would also be tarnished.

 

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