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A Colombian handbag designer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after federal prosecutors said she illegally smuggled handbags made from caiman and python skin — both protected species — to New York. Nancy Teresa Gonzalez de Barberi, the founder of luxury handbag company Gzuniga Ltd., had been indicted in April 2022 on a charge of conspiracy and two counts of smuggling into the U.S. for illegally importing the bags from February 2016 to April 2019.
Gonzalez, Giraldo and Aguilar Jaramillo are all Colombian citizens who were extradited to the U.S. on the same charges. Gonzalez was sentenced Monday to prison time with credit for time served, three years of supervised release and to pay a special assessment. Her company was ordered to forfeit all handbags, banned for three years from any activities involving commercial trade in wildlife and sentenced to serve three years of probation.
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