Appeals Court reinstates Vietnamese man's four-year jail term for possessing leopard parts


PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has reinstated a four-year jail sentence originally imposed by the Sessions Court on a Vietnamese man for keeping 54 parts of a protected leopard species without a special permit.

A three-member bench comprising Justices Datuk Hashim Hamzah, Datuk Mohamed Zaini Mazlan and Datuk Noorin Badaruddin allowed the prosecution's appeal to overturn the Temerloh High Court's decision, which had earlier reduced Nguyen Van Tien's jail term to two years.

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