Landmark case in Singapore SINGAPORE––Convicted of defrauding the Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) of $26.5 million in Singapore dollars, former building contractor Tan Boon Kwee was on October 15, 2015 jailed for 14 months. Tan Boon Kwee was to have paid the sum, worth $19.4 million U.S. dollars, in damages […]
Singapore trafficker sentence puzzles ACRES president Louis Ng
SINGAPORE––The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore on February 10, 2014 announced that Ong Ming Shiang, 33, had been fined a record $41,000 Singapore dollars (about $32,310 U.S.) for illegal possession of 32 smuggled exotic animals. But the case “really puzzles me,” said Animal Concerns Research […]