Tourist busted trying to smuggle orangutan out of Bali
- 5 years ago
A Russian tourist trying to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase was arrested on March 22, 2019, local authorities said. Airport security personnel in Denpasar, Bali discovered the two-year-old male orangutan sleeping in a basket inside the man’s luggage, which was equipped with baby formula and blankets. The tourist, Andrei Zhestkov, claimed a friend had gifted him the orangutan after buying him in a Java street market. He planned to keep the endangered animal as a…