I was just reading the posting by Kay Barrett in Vol. 6, Issue 255, in which it stated that " According to the Indictment and statements in Court, Arias made several shipments of orchids to his co-conspirator, Norris, between January of 1999 and October of 2003. Arias would obtain a CITES permit for the shipment from Peruvian authorities, with whom he had a long-standing relationship, authorizing the export of certain numbers of artificially-propagated specimens of particular species of orchids. Arias would then include in the shipment specimens of species not included on the CITES permit. Norris and Arias admitted by their pleas that to conceal their illegal activity, they would falsely label the protected species as a species included on the permit."
If this is the case, no crime was committed in this country bu Arias - it was committed in Peru. Why is he being prosecuted in this country for a crime committed in Peru? This country has no juridiction to take action against someone who commits a crime outside this country. Just what game is the government trying to pull here? Anybody have comments on this? Carson E. Whitlow P.S. I have received some very interesting comments off list on my last posting regarding "ex post facto" CITES. Thank you for them.
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