His crime was smuggling the head home in 2007. He has plead guilty to that. Maximum sentence is 1 year in jail and $100 grand fine. He will likely get less but even so...
I like this section at the end
Management of polar bears is a shared responsibility between Ottawa and the provinces and territories, with hunting tags issued by the Nunavut government.
A 2009 study by the Humane Society International and the International Fund for Animal Welfare argues that polar-bear trophy hunting is not an Inuit tradition but a recent phenomenon that contributes to less than one per cent of the Nunavut GDP.
Mr. Nirlungayuk said, however, that the tags sold to foreign hunters come out of a community’s quota so that trophy hunting doesn’t affect the number of harvested bears while bringing money to remote communities where the cost of living is high.
He also bristled at the idea of non-natives defining what constitutes the Inuit way of life.
“Who are they to say that it’s not traditional? It’s not traditional for you guys to be in a car. Should you be riding horses? Our culture has evolved.”