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Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos faces additional charges

Harvard researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos faces additional charges

Toronto Star5 hours ago

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling clawed frog embryos into the United States was indicted Wednesday on additional charges.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Boston on one count of concealment of a material fact, one count of false statement and one count of smuggling goods into the United States. She had been charged with the smuggling in May.

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