Man sentenced to three months' jail for owning geckos


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 16 Apr 2019

TAWAU: An Indonesian man has been sentenced to three months' jail and fined RM30,000 by the Sessions Court here, after he pleaded guilty to having four live geckos in his possession.

On Tuesday (April 16), Sessions Court Judge Awang Krisnada Awang Mahmud ordered 42-year-old Arip Samsudin to serve another nine months in prison, in addition to the jail term already meted out to him if he failed to pay the fine.

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