Two Malaysian men were each fined $15,000 on Tuesday for exporting 15 Asian arowanas to Malaysia without a permit. --PHOTO: AVA
TWO Malaysian men were each fined $15,000 on Tuesday for exporting 15 Asian arowanas to Malaysia without a permit.
Law Yoong Sang, 37, an air-conditioning ducting technician, and Tan Choon Shyang, 31, a renovation contractor, pleaded guilty to the offence at Woodlands checkpoint on June 22..
Tan was driving a Malaysian-registered BMW with Law when immigration officers found three large black coloured plastic bags of fish in the boot, and another two bags of fish at the floorboard of the back passenger seat.
The duo had picked up the 15 fishes packed into plastic bags from a fish farm earlier at Sungei Tengah.
Neither of them had a permit to export the fishes to Malaysia.
They could have been fined up to $50,000 for each scheduled species and/or jailed for up to two years.
