Bon voyage, Bon Bon: A keeper holding Bon Bon at the Ngurah Rai International Airport near Denpasar in Bali. — AFP
Bali: A baby orangutan that was drugged by a Russian trafficker in a failed bid to smuggle it out of Bali will be released back into the wild.
The case made headlines in March when suspicious authorities on the Indonesian holiday island stopped Andrei Zhestkov, who was flying back to Russia, and opened his luggage to find a two-year-old orangutan sleeping inside a rattan basket.
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