SINGAPORE – For RM250 (S$75) per animal, a man agreed to smuggle 26 dogs and a cat in his lorry from Malaysia to Singapore in one trip in October 2022.
But 19 of the animals died, in what the National Parks Board (NParks) considers the most shocking case of live animal smuggling it has seen so far.
Malaysian Gobysuwaran Paraman Sivan, 36, was on Monday sentenced to a year’s jail after he pleaded guilty to 20 charges under the Animals and Birds Act.
Gobysuwaran worked as a lorry driver to transport construction materials from Malaysia to Singapore via Tuas Checkpoint.
In 2021, while eating in Johor Bahru, he was approached by a man known only as “Dido”, who asked if he was interested in smuggling animals to Singapore. But Gobysuwaran would not be paid for any animal that died along the way.
He agreed to the proposal…
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