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The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering
Cambodia is the largest exporter of illegal wild baby monkeys to the United States. Since 2014 over 30,000 baby monkeys were laundered annually from Cambodia to the United States. Each baby monkey, mainly 1kg to 3kg baby macaques at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 each. Baby monkeys were used at research labs, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities, and private and government backed hospitals.
Fake permits, undercover informants and millions of dollars. How a US government agency set out to prove suppliers to research labs were importing wild monkeys from Cambodia with false paperwork.
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