Fake permits, undercover informants and millions of dollars. US investigators have spent years trying to prove that poaching in Cambodia is part of a black market pipeline through which wild macaques and other monkeys are shipped to local ...See moreFake permits, undercover informants and millions of dollars. US investigators have spent years trying to prove that poaching in Cambodia is part of a black market pipeline through which wild macaques and other monkeys are shipped to local processing facilities and secretly mixed with bred monkeys. Agents from US Fish and Wildlife launched several undercover operations and eventually made their first high-profile arrest. In the Bloomberg Originals mini-documentary The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering, we follow the investigation, starting with a whistleblower and ending with a dramatic confrontation in US federal court.
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