The way a smuggler can be dealt with.

[100ponder]

Go to http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/05/0 ... sentenced/ ... sentenced/ and see how a smuggler can be dealt with when a country really wants to.

[Lisbeth]

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[100ponder]

OK, I don't know why the address is copied incomplete - but here is a of the report that appeared on the CBS Minnesota web site :-

St. Cloud, Yiwei Zheng

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former St. Cloud State University professor has been sentenced to pay a $500,000 fine for smuggling elephant ivory and illegally exporting rhinoceros horns from the U.S. to China.

Yiwei Zheng pleaded guilty to violating the federal Lacey Act, which bans trade of wildlife, fish and plants that have been illegally taken or sold, in January.

Zheng smuggled the items between 2006 and 2011. The items he tried to smuggle include potted flower carvings, a fan and a carved lion all made of elephant ivory.

Assistant United States Attorney Laura M. Provinzino said Zheng earned more than $1 million through his online business, Crouching Dragon Antiques, which included items made of the smuggled ivory and rhinoceros horns.

The $500,000 fine will go to the Lacey Act Reward Fund, which is used to reward people who provide information about wildlife crimes and to pay the costs of caring for fish, wildlife or plants that are held as evidence in ongoing investigations.

The judge also sentenced Zheng to three years’ probation, a six week period of intermittent confinement and to perform 150 hours of community service.

[Lisbeth]

Now that is a serious fine that hurts!

[Flutterby]

[100ponder]

The FB page for "The Mara Triangle" referenced the attached article from the Tanzanian "CITIZEN" news paper :-
( Looks like Tanzania is also getting to grips with their poaching problems.)

[Lisbeth]

The article is so badly written, that it is difficult to find head and tail

Anyway this has sense:

Mr. Nchimbi told the court that there was sufficient reason to believe the two Chinese were ring leaders and financiers of an elephant poaching syndicate in the country

I cannot immagine two Chinese killing 226 elephants all by themselves

I hope that they do not have the money for the fine and will have to go to jail