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Flight Passenger Fined $15,000 for Carrying Thousands of Leeches in Carry-On Luggage

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Flight Passenger Fined $15,000 for Carrying Thousands of Leeches in Carry-On Luggage
Leeches squirm in a dish at the International Medical Leech Centre in Udelnaya, Russia, on Oct. 28, 2009. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
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A man from Niagara Falls, Canada is paying a hefty price after trying to import thousands of leeches by air in his carry-on luggage.

The Ontario Court of Justice fined Ippolit Bodounov C$15,000 (US$11,120) on May 24 after he was caught trying to wheel 5,000 live leeches from Russia into Toronto’s Pearson International Airport back in October 2018.

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Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
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