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'Cold-blooded': 4 charged over alleged plot to smuggle AU$1.2 million in Australian reptiles

Australia And New Zealand

'Cold-blooded': 4 charged over alleged plot to smuggle AU$1.2 million in Australian reptiles

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian task force devoted to stopping illegal reptile exports announced the disruption of a “cold-blooded and cruel” crim…

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