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Related: About this forumChinese 'Ivory Queen' Sentenced To 15 Years In Jail In Tanzania.
A convicted Chinese trafficker known as the "ivory queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Tanzanian court.
Yang Fenglan, who has lived in Tanzania on and off for decades and operated a Chinese restaurant, was found guilty of working with two Tanzanian men to smuggle more than 800 pieces of ivory between 2000 and 2004, as Reuters reported.
Yang and the men Salivius Matembo and Manase Philemon were convicted of "leading an organised criminal gang," according to the wire service. They have denied the accusations.
She was initially arrested in 2015, following what the BBC termed a "high speed car chase" with Tanzanian authorities.
Investigators say Yang "was a key link between poachers in East Africa and buyers in China for more than a decade," the broadcaster reported.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696038515/chinese-ivory-queen-sentenced-to-15-years-in-jail-in-tanzania?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190219&fbclid=IwAR10d-4rwT6iqFSIBOKAzYvXkcROiR5psJOXBwTPpvSGnvrFrEtbh1Sse-c
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Cattledog
Feb 2019
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pansypoo53219
(21,010 posts)1. should have just killed her like an elephant.
3Hotdogs
(12,467 posts)2. + 1
Still kinda interesting.... I don't support the death penalty but when it comes to animal abuse like this, I would go for it. --- wondering about that contradiction in myself.
I am also not a vegitarian.
Duppers
(28,134 posts)3. Wonder how many hundreds of elephants
She is responsible for having killed!!
May she rot!!