Foreigner gets 12-month jail, RM100,000 fine for smuggling turtle eggs in Sandakan


KOTA KINABALU: A foreigner has been sentenced to 12-month in jail and slapped with a RM100,000 fine after being found guilty of trying to smuggle over 4,000 turtle eggs into the country through Sandakan last month.

Sandakan Sessions Court Judge Noor Hafizah Mohd Salim meted the sentence on Abdul Nasir Razak, 57, who holds the IMM13 document - a visit pass issued to Filipino refugees in Sabah following unrest in southern Philippines in the early 1970s - on Tuesday (Sept 5).

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