Justin Bieber's pet monkey is not longer his

The capuchin monkey named Mally, which was seized from Canadian pop-star Justin Bieber by customs officials in Munich in March, officially became property of Germany. Bieber has six weeks to contest the decision.

"The monkey belongs to Germany now," Judith Brettmeister, said spokeswoman for the shelter which has cared for Mally.
The pet was reportedly a birthday present from Bieber's record producer and accompanied him on a private jet to Munich while the 19-year-old toured Germany and Austria. It was confiscated on March 28 because the pop singer didn't have the necessary documents for importing a live animal .

Authorities had said that the singer had four weeks to provide the paperwork and claim his pet or else Mally would be kept permanently at an animal shelter.

"Animals are not toys," Germany's environment minister Peter Altmaier was quoted by DPA news agency as saying in a warning against people having animals they are unable to care for.
In the meantime, Mally will be housed in a "secret" place in Germany to shelter it from attention.

"It needs calm," the spokesman said, adding that after this quarantine period, it would have to re-adjust to living with other monkeys.