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Chinese man jailed for one year by Kenyan court over ant trafficking
Zhang Kequn must also pay about $8,000 after admitting he tried to take more than 2,000 ants abroad, a judge said.
- A court in Kenya sentenced Zhang Kequn to one year in jail for illegally possessing wildlife.
- He was found with hundreds of live ants stored in tubes and was also fined 1 million Kenyan shillings.
- Authorities noted similar cases, highlighting concerns over the illegal trade of ants, which are kept as pets or delicacies in some regions.
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Strange, but true. Zhang Kekun, of Chinese origin, was arrested last March at the main international airport in Nairobi, Kenya, while he was trying to leave the country with over 2,200 giant ants (including 1,948 specimens of the precious species Messor cephalotes) in his luggage. The court sentenced Kekun to the payment of a fine of 6,500 euros and to 12 months of imprisonment for having tried to export giant ants alive. The judge specified tha…
Arrested at Nairobi airport, Zhang Kequn pleaded guilty. Each of the live garden ants you carried in your luggage could be worth up to 196 euros for collectors who have formicariums.
Chinese National Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Smuggling Ants from Kenya
A court in Nairobi on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national named Zhang Kequn to a year in prison, plus a fine of one million shillings ($7,737), for trying to smuggle live ants out of Kenya. The post Chinese National Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Smuggling Ants from Kenya appeared first on Breitbart.
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Chinese man jailed for one year by Kenyan court over ant trafficking
A Chinese national was sentenced to one year in jail by a Kenyan court after being found in possession without a permit of hundreds of live ants stored in specialized tubes.
A court in Kenya has fined a Chinese national one million shillings (about $7,500) and sentenced him to one year in prison for trying to smuggle 2,200 live ants out of the African country last month.
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