BINTULU: A vessel owner and his staff were each sentenced to one year imprisonment and fined RM1.4 million in default of four months in jail for possessing 146 pangolins which are endangered and protected animals, without a license.

Sessions Court Judge Norhamizah Shaiffuddin found the accused persons, Tan Choon How and Kelvin Por Seong Wooi guilty as charged.

They were convicted under Section 37 (2) (b), which was read together with Section 29 (2) of the Wildlife Protection Ordinance 1998.