Senior customs officer charged with not handing over pangolin scales to Perhilitan

: A senior Royal Malaysian Customs Department officer was charged at the Sessions Court here today for not handing over seized pangolin scales to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia in 2019.

He is alleged to have instructed a senior Customs assistant superintendent to dispose of the scales of a pangolin of the Genus Manis SPP species, which were seized items, from the Enforcement Sore of the North Klang Port Marine Base between September and December 2019 even though he knew that they needed to be handed over to Perhilitan as the managing authorities appointed under Section 6 of the International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2008 ​​​​​.

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