Traveler fined $15,000 for smuggling thousands of live leeches into Canadian airport
May 28, 2019 at 09:06 AM EDT
The traveler, identified as Ippolit Bodounov from Niagara Falls, Ontario, had flown into Toronto Pearson International Airport from Russia in Oct. 2018, carrying the 4,788 leeches in his carry-on bag.
