Charleston, SC (WBTW) – Bhagavan “DOC”, who was high in the world of big cats in fame through Netflix documents for 2021, went to the federal prison after admitting that he was guilty of conspiracy and charges of money laundering.
Intel, 65, obtained a 12 -month prison sentence and on Tuesday in the Charleston Division of the US local court by Judge Joseph Lawson III. The issuance of the ruling comes after nearly two years after it confessed to violating the Lassi Law, which prohibits trafficking in wildlife, fish or plants that were illegally taken, including federal protected animal species.
Intel was also sentenced to three years imprisonment of the release subject to supervision after the completion of the prison sentence and a fine of $ 55,000. He is famous as the founder of The Wildlife Preservy MyRTLE Beach Safari.
“I made a mistake. I have done stupid things that had never had to happen and I hope to post them together,” said Intel shortly before the ruling on judgment.
Intel, a friend of the traditional media, refused to speak with the correspondents after the court’s appearance for three hours, including what he means to imprison him for the future of his work.
The Ministry of Justice said that it conspired by violating a Lassi law between September 2018 and May 2020 by directing the sale or purchase of two cubs of Al -Fahd, the lion cubs, and two tigers and chimpanzees events, all of which are protected by the Law of the Endangered Species.
Antle has used wholesale cash payments to hide counterfeit transactions and papers to show fully commercial transfers within one state. Intel also asked to make payments for endangered species to his non -profit organization so that they can appear as “donations”.
The investigation also revealed evidence of money laundering between February and the April 2022, when Intel and the participating listener conducted financial transactions with money they believed to have been obtained from the transfer and foreigners of illegal foreigners. To hide and hide the nature of illegal criticism, Antlel and the listener of the money participant took and deposited it in the account they control. Then they write a check for the person who presented the money, after obtaining a 15 % fee for each transaction.
A representative of the ethical treatment of animals issued a statement immediately after Antlel’s judgment, pledging to close Safari from ANTLE MYRTLE Beach.
“You will finally learn to feel the abstraction of freedom, closed in a cage, and every moment is controlled every day,” said Brittani Pitti, General Adviser to the Peta for Asiri Law Foundation. “But unlike Intel, the animals that were sentenced to life imprisonment in his zoo on the side of the successful road did not commit any crimes, and will work to close Safari Myrtle Beach and make sure that large, exploited cats, chimpanzees and other endangered animals are still launched in the facilities that you will get well as they need some extent and they can get rid of From it. “
Public Prosecutors photographed Intel as the central number on the black market in the country that bought, selling and transporting protected animals for decades without any result behind a curtain preserving preservation.
“Mr. Intel is the one who imitates all these people,” said Patrick Dogan, lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, who specializes in environmental issues. “People want to simulate what he did. He has become rich and famous to do it.”
Dogan said that despite the quality that illegal animals may receive once in the possession of Intel, his actions have helped enhance overfishing, smuggling and other criminal behavior.
“In the pursuit of all these endangered species for profit, it leads a very profitable trade,” Dogan said. “This was a long -term and continuous crime.”
More than 20 supporters of Intel, including friends and family, were in the referee on Tuesday, including one of his grandson who cried when describing Intel’s dedication.
Paul Bater, former Hururi District Vice President, said in his friendship that lasted almost 30 years with Antel, he had never heard anything that warns of danger.
“We have had countless conversations, and I did not hear him during that time talking about anything shadow, anything incompetent,” Pater said. “If that happened, I couldn’t continue to be friends.”
From California citizen, Intel was establishedMyristle Beach SafariIn 1982, ultimately, cultivating it to a 50 -acre wildlife reserve that offers safari -like tours at a price of approximately $ 400 per person. Intel is also the director of the rare species Fund, a non -profit organization registered in South Carolina.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said he had 60 days for people with the autonomy.
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