Man fined over half a million ringgit for keeping illegal wildlife


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 16 Feb 2017

- Reuters file pic of a Malayan tiger

KAJANG: A senior engineer has been sentenced to four months' jail and fined RM550,000 by the Sessions Court here Thursday for keeping illegal wildlife including a tiger and a crocodile in his house compound.

Judge Noridah Adam handed down the sentence on Mohd Taha Abd Wahab, 51, after he maintained his guilty plea on nine counts of possessing protected wildlife species.

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