Malaysian lorry driver gets one-year jail for smuggling animals into Singapore


SINGAPORE, April 24 (The Straits Times/ANN): For RM250 (S$80) per animal, a man agreed to smuggle 26 dogs and a cat in his lorry from Malaysia to Singapore in one trip in October 2022.

But 19 of the animals died, in what the National Parks Board (NParks) considers the most shocking case of live animal smuggling it has seen so far.

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