Tanzania charges four Chinese for rhino horn smuggling

Tanzania charges four Chinese for rhino horn smuggling
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM Nov 25 A Tanzanian court has charged four Chinese nationals for smuggling rhino horns, a senior police official said on Wednesday, pointing to further gains in the fight against the illegal trade. Last month, Tanzania, which relies ...

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9 years ago

Euronews

18 Dec

Tanzania court jails four Chinese men for rhino horn smuggling

Daily Mail
Tanzania court jails four Chinese men for rhino horn smuggling
euronews
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania has sentenced four Chinese men to 20 years in jail each after they were convicted of smuggling rhino horns, part of a crackdown in sub-Saharan Africa on lucrative illegal poaching of protected wildlife. The East ...
Four jailed for smuggling rhino hornsIndependent Online
Tanzania jails four Chinese for 20 years for smuggling rhino hornsYahoo7 News

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9 years ago

Capital FM Kenya (Press Release) (Blog)

19 Dec

Tanzania jails 4 Chinese for 20 yrs for smuggling rhino horns

Capital FM Kenya (press release) (blog)
Tanzania jails 4 Chinese for 20 yrs for smuggling rhino horns
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (blog)
The four men, identified as Song Lei, Xiao Shaodan, Chen Jianlian and Hu Liang, were arrested in the Mbeya region last month as they crossed into Tanzania from Malawi. They were sentenced on Wednesday/file. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec 18 – A ...

 

9 years ago

Reuters

09 Oct

Tanzania charges Chinese 'Ivory Queen' smuggling suspect

U.S. News & World Report
Tanzania charges Chinese 'Ivory Queen' smuggling suspect
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM A Tanzanian court has charged a prominent Chinese businesswoman, dubbed the 'Ivory Queen', with running a criminal network responsible for smuggling tusks from more than 350 elephants, court documents seen by Reuters on Friday ...
Tanzania: Wildlife Activists Praise Arrest of Chinese WomanABC News
'Queen of Ivory': Africa's infamous poaching mastermind nabbedFox News
The “Queen of Ivory”...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Dec

Sh900 rhino horn smuggling case ongoing

Four Chinese nationals on trial for smuggling 11 rhino horns worth Sh902.8 million have a case to answer, a court in Mbeya Region ruled yesterday.

 

10 years ago

BBC

SA charges 'rhino horn traffickers'

Two Vietnamese nationals in South Africa have been charged with the illegal possession of 41kg (90lbs) of rhino horn, police tell the BBC.

 

9 years ago

South China Morning Post (Subscription)

09 Oct

Tanzania charges Chinese woman dubbed the 'Queen of Ivory' for smuggling 700 tusks

South China Morning Post (subscription)
Tanzania charges Chinese woman dubbed the 'Queen of Ivory' for smuggling 700 tusks
South China Morning Post (subscription)
They call her the Queen of Ivory – a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade. Over 15 years, she helped smuggle more than 700 elephant tusks out of Africa, officials said on Thursday. But as ...
'Queen of Ivory' charged in Tanzania in major crackdown on poachingThe Seattle...

 

9 years ago

Zegabi

13 Oct

Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania

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
Wildlife...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Dec

Chinese get 20-year jail term for smuggling 11 rhino horns

The four convicts were also ordered to pay Sh10.8bn fine. Their case was heard for 23 days

 

9 years ago

News24

09 Oct

Tanzania cops charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory

News24
Tanzania cops charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory
News24
Dar es Salaam - A Chinese woman has been charged in a Tanzanian court with smuggling nearly 1.9 tons of ivory as wildlife activists applauded the move by Tanzanian authorities to crack down on the illegal ivory trade, which has devastated the elephant ...
Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most ...NDTV
The News in photo of 8th October 2015Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release)...

 

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