Chinese ivory smuggler gets record sentence

A Chinese ivory smuggler is ordered to pay a record fine or spend seven years in jail, under tough new Kenyan anti-poaching laws.

Salon
Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler
Africa Science News Service
A suspected Chinese ivory smuggler is expected to be arraigned in a Makadara Law Courts, Nairobi, Kenya this morning. Tang Yong Jian, 40, was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while on transit from Napula, Mozambique to ...
40-year-old Chinese man arrested at JKIA with ivory disguised as cupsThe Standard Digital News
Conservationists to Hong Kong: “Ivory is not art”Salon
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Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years
AFP
Dar es Salaam — A court in Tanzania jailed on Wednesday a Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years amid a crackdown to stem a surge in poaching. Yu Bo, 45, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of 81 elephant tusks and the skins of two pangolins, which are ...

U.S. News & World Report
Tanzania says its most infamous ivory smuggler is this elderly Chinese ...
Quartz
Tanzanian authorities claim they have arrested a kingpin of the illegal ivory trade—an elderly Chinese woman that has been living in Dar es Salaam since the 1970s, working as a translator, restaurant owner, and pepper farm owner. Tanzania's National ...
Tanzania: Wildlife activists praise arrest of Chinese womanBristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
The “Queen of Ivory” arrested in...

Zegabi
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania
Zegabi
8979794_G A 66-year-old Chinese woman who was arrested by a specialized wildlife task force in Tanzania last week will fight charges that she masterminded a multinational crime syndicate involved in smuggling over 700 tusks to Asia. On Monday, Yang ...
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' innocent, will fight Tanzanian charges- lawyerReuters Africa
Chinese 'Queen of Ivory' Arrested in TanzaniaEnvironment News Service
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Voice of America
Interpol Nabs Accused Ivory Smuggler
Voice of America
The international police agency Interpol says it has arrested an alleged ivory trafficker who had been on the run for months. The head of Interpol, Vitalis Okumu, said Tuesday that officers apprehended Feisal Ali a day earlier at a rental home in Dar es Salaam, ...
Interpol Has Arrested One of Its Most Wanted Environmental FugitivesVICE News
Tanzania arrests Kenyan leading ivory traffickerPress TV
Police arrest 'most wanted'...

Tanzania jails ivory smuggler for 20 years
News24
Faced with increased activity by poachers and traffickers, who are decimating the African elephant population to the point of potentially causing its extinction in the long run, the destruction of seized ivory by security officials have increased. (T. Multimedia ...
Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 yearsAFP

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The Guardian
Interpol: Kenyan Suspected Ivory Smuggler Arrested
ABC News
Kenyan police have arrested an alleged ivory trafficker, who had been on the run for months, the international police agency said Tuesday. Feisal Ali was arrested at a rental house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday evening, said the head of Interpol in ...
Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in TanzaniaChron.com

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BBC News
Police arrest 'most wanted' ivory smuggler in Tanzania
BBC News
A Kenyan businessman suspected of being behind an international ivory smuggling ring has been arrested in Tanzania. Police said that Feisal Mohamed Ali was linked to a three tonne haul of elephant tusks seized in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Mr Ali had ...
Interpol Officials Arrest Kenyan Poaching Suspect in TanzaniaBusinessweek
Interpol: Kenyan suspected ivory smuggler arrestedBloomington Pantagraph

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