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Bird smuggling: Malaysian trader fined $6,000
Published on Mar 24, 2012
The three Oriental White-eye songbirds (above) were packed into narrow PVC pipes placed in a basket, covered with a face towel, and put on the front passenger seat of Yee's car. They stayed there for more than six hours. -- PHOTOS: AVA
A Malaysian man was on Friday fined $6,000 for trying to smuggle three birds through the Woodlands Checkpoint on Wednesday.
Yee Shen Yaw, 38, had packed the birds into narrow PVC pipes hidden under a piece of cloth in his car.
He was charged with importing the animals into Singapore without a licence, and unreasonably causing unnecessary suffering to the animals.
Yee, who is a trader dealing in bird cages and bird food, tried to enter the country at about 6.45am.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
