Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years

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 ...

AFP

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

News24

19 Mar

Tanzania jails ivory smuggler for 20 years

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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9 years ago

Quartz

09 Oct

Tanzania says its most infamous ivory smuggler is this elderly Chinese ...

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...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Jan

Chinese ivory smuggler gets record sentence

>A court in Kenya today slapped a record sentence on a Chinese ivory smuggler, the first person to be convicted under tough new laws designed to stem a surge in poaching.

 

11 years ago

Africa Science News Service

20 Jan

Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler

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
Tanzania...

 

9 years ago

The News International

19 Dec

Tanzania jails four Chinese

Voice of America
Tanzania jails four Chinese
The News International
DAR ES SALAAM: A Tanzanian court jailed four Chinese men for 20 years after they were caught smuggling 11 rhino horns, one of the largest seizures ever made in the east African nation, a lawyer said on Friday. "The convicts are also required to pay a ...
Tanzania court jails four Chinese men for rhino horn smugglingReuters

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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...

 

10 years ago

BBC News

23 Dec

Police arrest 'most wanted' ivory smuggler in Tanzania

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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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 ...

 

10 years ago

Headlines &Amp; Global News

24 Dec

Interpol's 'Most Wanted' Ivory Smuggler Finally Arrested In Tanzania

Headlines & Global News
Interpol's 'Most Wanted' Ivory Smuggler Finally Arrested In Tanzania
Headlines & Global News
Interpol- the international police agency- said it arrested a fugitive suspected of running an international ivory-smuggling ring. (Photo : Reuters). A Kenyan man said to be a notorious smuggler was finally arrested in Tanzania after months on the run, Interpol ...
Ivory kingpin caught after months on runThe Times (subscription)
Interpol Has Arrested One of Its Most Wanted...

 

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