US Court Clears Cambodian Official of Monkey Smuggling Charge The Cambodian government asserted Masphal’s innocence His trial started on Mar 11 after a five-year US investigation into an alleged ring that abducted long-tailed macaques from forests and falsely identified them as captive-bred before they were sold A jury in Florida cleared him on Mar 22
Cambodian official acquitted by US jury in monkey-smuggling case The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida has acquitted Kry Masphal, director of the Forestry Administration’s (FA) Wildlife and Biodiversity Department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, of any wrongdoing, for his part in an alleged monkey-smuggling ring
United States v. Masphal Kry Information Provided by PETA Vanny Bio-research (Cambodia) Corporation Ltd , a monkey farm According to the indictment, the co-conspirators knowingly arranged for the capture, purchase, and resale of endangered monkeys who had been taken from their forest homes in Cambodia and sold them to U S monkey importers as captive-bred, f
Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering . . . PHNOM PENH — On March 22, a jury in Miami, Florida, found Cambodian forestry official Kry Masphal not guilty of conspiracy and smuggling in relation to allegations that he was involved in exporting wild-caught monkeys to the United States and falsely labeling them as captive-bred
Southern District of Florida | Cambodian Officials and Six Co . . . Between December 2017 and September 2022, Kry is alleged to have taken part in conversations regarding the pricing for wild macaques to be captured and delivered to monkey breeding facilities operated by the co-conspirators