SINGAPORE: The director of a trading firm was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Wednesday (Feb 15) for importing 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks from Africa into Singapore, en route to Vietnam. The tusks ...
Trading firm director jailed over import of over 1,700 pieces of elephant tusks
A woman, who was a director of a trading company that imported a 40-foot container containing an unprecedented haul of 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks, was given 10 months’ jail on Wednesday (Feb 15).
10 months’ jail for trading firm director linked to import of more than 1,700 elephant tusk pieces
After a trial, Dao Thi Boi, now 40, was convicted in 2022 of an offence under the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act. At the time of the offence, the Vietnamese woman, who is also a Singapore ...
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