The Chinese man declares himself guilty of smuggling 850 protected turtles worth more than $ 1 million of us
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Chinese man accused of smuggling turtles to his house of Hong Kong
A Chinese man faces up to five years in prison for trying to smuggled protected turtles for a value of more than $ 1 million in the United States to Hong Kong.
Wei Qiang Lin, from Brooklyn, declared himself guilty on Monday in a Federal District Court in New York to export more than 220 plots containing around 850 Eastern cash turtles and three fingers.
The Department of Justice said that live turtles had been wrapped in socks for the trip of a week and the boxes with reptiles had been labeled as they contained “animal plastic toys.”
The turtles, which had a market value of $ 1.4 million, were intercepted by the police in a border inspection, he said.
The agents of the law “observed them tied and glued within the knotted socks within the shipping boxes,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.
The turtles of the east of the box and the three fingertips have colorful brands and are a “precious characteristic in the national and foreign pet market, particularly in China and Hong Kong,” said the Department of Justice in a statement.
He said they are protected by the International Trade Convention of Endangered Species of Fauna and Wild Flora.
Lin also supposedly exported another 11 plots full of reptiles, including venomous snakes, said the Department of Justice.
The sentence was scheduled for December 23. Lin faces a maximum fine of five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $ 250,000.
Last October, a woman from China declared guilty of trying to smuggling 29 turtles of the east Through a Lake Vermont In Canada by kayak.
- United States Department of Justice
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