The former head of Cambodia's Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity, Masphal Kry, is facing charges of smuggling research monkeys into the United States, which he is defense argues is an attack on the Cambodian government. The U.S. case against Kry and seven other individuals is tantamount to an attack on the Cambodian government, according to his defense lawyers, who claim that Kry was acting on orders of his government and not in a personal capacity. The monkeys Kry is accused of smuggling were taken from the wild in Cambodia and then falsified permits to make it seem as though they had been raised in a breeding facility, which is against U.S. law. The prosecution argued that Kry and his associates were trying to make it seem as though the monkeys had been bred in captivity, when in fact they had been caught in the wild.

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