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Updated Saturday, September 4, 2010 10:55 pm TWN, KUALA LUMPUR, AFP

'Lizard King' admits to smuggling 95 live snakes

A Malaysian wildlife trafficker has pleaded guilty to smuggling 95 endangered boa constrictors and could face up to seven years in jail, officials said Friday.

Anson Wong, 52, nicknamed the “Lizard King” and described as one of the world's most-wanted smugglers of wild animals, was arrested at the airport last week after he tried to smuggle the live snakes to neighboring Indonesia.

The Wildlife and National Parks Department has said Wong was arrested after his luggage broke while on the conveyor belt, and airline staff later found snakes and a turtle in his bag.

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