FWD: Fined RM2,500 for having pythons

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Saturday May 28, 2005

Fined RM2,500 for having pythons

 

 

MALACCA: A snake-skin processing factory worker has been fined RM2,500 for

having 232 live and six dead reticulated pythons and buying them from an

unlicensed trader.

 

Lim Chuan Kim, 22, a worker of Tak Sai Trading, was fined RM1,500 yesterday

under the Protection of Wildlife Act after he pleaded guilty to possessing the

snakes and RM1,000 for buying them from an illegal trader.

 

In mitigation, his counsel K. Govindaraju told magistrate Elsie Primus that Lim

was employed by a licensed holder and therefore entitled to handle the snakes.

 

“The snakes are not entirely protected as those who have a licence can trade in

the animal,” he said.

 

Lim, from Penang, was found transporting the snakes in a lorry without valid

documents by the state Wildlife and National Parks Department along the Ayer

Keroh Highway at 10am on May 19.

 

He settled the fine.

 

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