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A Vietnamese man pleaded guilty at the Johor Baru Sessions Court on Friday (April 10) to possessing 1,022 gall bladders and 191 tongues of reticulated python without a licence.

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00:01A Vietnamese man pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing various snake organs without permits at the Johor Bahru Sessions
00:09Court on Friday.
00:1039-year-old Hoang Van Thai pleaded guilty when the charges were read in Vietnamese before Sessions Court, Judge Madiha
00:19Zainal.
00:20The accused was found to have in his possession 1,022 gallbladders and 191 tongues of python reticulatus, a protected
00:29wildlife species under the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 without a license at a house in Taman Johor Jaya on April
00:374.
00:38Wildlife and National Parks Department Deputy Public Prosecutor Mas Izzati Lokman requested the court to set a date for the
00:47submission of morphology reports.
00:49She also asked the court not to allow bail to the suspect, citing the seriousness of the alleged crimes and
00:56the suspect's status as a non-citizen.
00:59However, his lawyer Mohamed Fazali Ali Mohamed Ghazali said his client's nationality should not be a factor as there should
01:07not be a disparity of treatment between locals and foreigners.
01:11The court set April 20th for the next mention of the case and the confirmation of the accused's immigration status
01:18to decide on bail.
01:20On April 4th, the Wildlife and National Parks Department uncovered a stash of wild animal parts such as snake and
01:28bear bile sacks worth over 36.8 million ringgit at a house in Taman Johor Jaya.
01:40The following March 3rd of July 5th, the Administrator appears to be called censor.
01:46On April 6th, the birth of the
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