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A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Keng Liang "Anson" Wong, 52, who was previously convicted of wildlife trafficking in the United States, was charged with exporting the endangered boas without a permit, said Shamsuddin Osman, an official with Malaysia's wildlife department.

A decade ago, Wong was sentenced to almost six years in prison in the US for running an animal-smuggling ring that prosecutors said imported and sold more than 300 protected reptiles native to Asia and Africa from 1996 until Wong's arrest in Mexico in 1998.