Here's some extracts from the indictment regarding the number of Macaques and their declared value, together with their penalty sheets and arrest warrants. They are not screwing around here.

A total of 2144 monkeys with a declared value of $9,347,580, which is $4359.87 per monkey.



Penalty Sheet, 5 years for conspiracy and 20 years for smuggling.





Arrest Warrants





Who's who:









What they did:

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:50 am Here's some extracts from the indictment regarding the number of Macaques and their declared value, together with their penalty sheets and arrest warrants. They are not screwing around here.

A total of 2144 monkeys with a declared value of $9,347,580, which is $4359.87 per monkey.



Penalty Sheet, 5 years for conspiracy and 20 years for smuggling.





Arrest Warrants





Who's who:









What they did:

That's a lotta money for essentially vermin

"Monkey-Laundering" (wild monkeys sold as farmed monkeys) has been going on for some time in Cambodia. Back in 2015, most of the wild macaques were first smuggled to Vietnam, where they were issued fake documents, before being sold on the international market :
Wild Macaques ‘Laundered’ for Sale in Vietnam
August 15, 2015
by Chris Mueller
Considered a nuisance throughout much of Cambodia, the long-tailed macaque might not seem like a species in need of protection.

But according to an animal rights group, the global demand for animal test subjects is driving an illegal and unimpeded cross-border trade in wild long-tailed macaques that is threatening to diminish the species’ already dwindling population in the country. 

Between January and June, Cruelty Free International (CFI), a U.K.-based anti-animal testing organization, conducted field investigations in Cambodia and Vietnam, where they interviewed animal traders and employees of monkey-breeding farms.

According to a report summarizing their investigation, the group found a flourishing illicit trade in which the monkeys are caught in Cambodian forests and smuggled into Vietnam. Once across the border, the primates are issued fake documents that label them as farmed monkeys, allowing them to be exported legally.

“We’re talking about animals being laundered,” Sarah Kite, director of special projects at CFI, said Friday. “The really shocking thing from our recent investigation was this trade of wild caught macaques was going from Cambodia to Vietnam.”
https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ ... nam-91742/

Who is involved ?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/ca ... -smuggling

Who is HE Dr. Keo Omaliss ?

© Office of Keo Omaliss, Forestry Administration 2019

https://cites.org/eng/node/110887

What a load of the proverbial cow manure / I wanted to create a new topic or reply to a inbox message but can not
So,I tagged this on here for the halibut

MAFF top brass on the TlS, Pursat.
The most bent organisation in country.
Powerful and dangerous. Unchallengeable.
Heroes bend before them as an accepted matter of course.
This boat has seen (literally) 100s of millions pass through their hands.

One that got away..

"vermin" on the TlS, Pursat
you see surprisingly few when you comb even the lake's most remote forested shores.