As usual, the media have lied about the whole thing:
"Right, to put a stop to speculation, here is what happened from information I have been given and from what I have gathered.
Lee was on a legitimate trip to Paraguay. He had all necessary permits for exporting the spiders from Paraguay, and bringing them in to the UK. He had booked his flight home as a direct flight from Paraguay to the UK.
However, his plane was unfortunately diverted via Brazil, and when he went to declare his paperwork to the Brazilian authorities, he was arrested. There are very strict laws on the import and export of tarantulas within Brazil, but he was never meant to be in Brazil in the first place.
Obviously as a forum we can't advocate the removal of large quantities of spiders from the wild, but the quantity of spiders was apparently nowhere near the media figure of over 1000.
There is no 'smuggling' involved, as the spiders were on permit to be exported from Paraguay to the UK.
As usual the media has inflated a story beyond all belief."
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