Luxury yacht company pleads guilty to illegal timber violations in Miami

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday in Miami that a luxury yacht company pleaded guilty to charges related to illegal timber.

Sunseeker International Limited and Sunseeker USA Sales Co. Inc. admitted to two violations of the Lacey Act, a law that bans the import of illegally taken timber.

The violations were related to a door and other parts made out of teak from Myanmar that were in yachts imported to the U.S., according to prosecutors…

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