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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

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MASPHAL KRY, 

Defendant.

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AFFIDAVIT IN 

SUPPORT OF REMOVAL 

TO TH E SOUTHERN

DISTRICT O F FLORIDA

(Fed. R. Crim. P. 5)

Case No. 22-mj-01230 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, SS:

Dorothy Manera, being duly sworn, deposes and states that she is a Special Agent

with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, duly appointed according to law and acting as such. 

On or about November 3, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern 

District of Florida issued an arrest warrant commanding the arrest of the defendant MASPHAL 

KRY for violations of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 (conspiracy to traffic wildlife) 

and 545 (smuggling protected wildlife). 

The source of your deponent’s information and the grounds for her belief are as 

follows:1

1. On or about November 3, 2022, the United States District Court for the 

Southern District of Florida issued an arrest warrant commanding the arrest of MASHPAL KRY

pursuant to a criminal indictment for violations of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 

1 Because the purpose of this Complaint is to set forth only those facts necessary to 

establish probable cause to arrest, I have not described all the relevant facts and circumstances of 

which I am aware.

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(conspiracy to traffic wildlife) and 545 (smuggling protected wildlife). A true and correct copy 

of the indictment and Arrest Warrant is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

2. KRY is a Cambodian government official. During the relevant time 

period in the indictment, he was a Deputy Director of the Department of Wildlife and 

Biodiversity within the Forestry Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and 

Fisheries (MAFF) of the Government of Cambodia. 

3. KRY was involved in a conspiracy to smuggle wild long-tailed macaques 

(“wild macaques”) (shown below in Figure-1) into the United States for financial gain

approximately between December 19, 2017 and January 30, 2022.

Figure-1 

4. In furtherance of the conspiracy, the defendant MASPHAL KRY helped 

capture and to deliver wild macaques to a breeding company that smuggled wild macaques into 

the United States under the guise that they were captive-bred. When delivering 24 wild

macaques to a breeding facility in Cambodia on or about September 1, 2019, KRY stated that the 

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land behind the facility should be purchased to make a road that would make it “more safe for 

smuggling.” 

5. On November 16, 2022, the defendant MASPHAL KRY landed at John F. 

Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, around 9:40 a.m. on Asiana flight OZ22

flying in from Seoul, South Korea. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) learned that KRY had 

an open Arrest Warrant under his full name. While passing through customs, KRY provided his 

Cambodian passport to a CBP officer. The CPB officer confirmed that the name on KRY’s 

passport matched the name on the Arrest Warrant and that the birthdate in KRY’s passport was 

the same as the birthdate for the individual on the Arrest Warrant. CBP officers subsequently 

escorted KRY to a secondary examination room once he was identified as KRY.

6. U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents entered the room and confirmed the 

defendant MASPHAL KRY’s identity as the person sought under the open Arrest Warrant. The 

agents were able to confirm KRY’s identity by comparing his likeness to a passport photo under 

his name and open source photographs associated with his role as a Cambodian official. KRY

was then placed under arrest. 

7. Based on the foregoing, I submit that there is probable cause to believe 

that the defendant is the MASPHAL KRY wanted in the Southern District of Florida.

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WHEREFORE, your deponent respectfully requests that the defendant 

MASPHAL KRY be removed to the Southern District of Florida so that he may be dealt with 

according to law. 

 

DORTHY MANERA 

Special Agent

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

Sworn to before me this 

17th day of November, 2022 

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HONORABLE MARCIA M. HENRY 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

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EXHIBIT A 

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