Vietnamese gets six years' jail, fined RM200,000 for felling agarwood trees


GEORGE TOWN: A 23-year-old Vietnamese man was sentenced by a Butterworth Sessions court to six years in jail and fined RM200,000, in default six months' jail, for felling agarwood trees.

Nguyen Van Tien, from Tinh Quong Binh province in Vietnam, had pleaded guilty earlier Monday to felling agarwood trees, with two others still at large, at the Bukit Panchor Forest Reserve in Nibong Tebal, at 3:30pm on Jan 1.

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