A Chinese businesswoman popularly called Ivory Queen has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison by a Tanzanian judge for smuggling the tusks of more than three hundred and fifty elephants.
Mrs Yang Feng Glan, aged sixty-nine, was charged in October 2015 along with two Tanzanian men with smuggling about eight hundred and sixty pieces of Elephant Tusk worth thirteen billion shillings over several years to Asia.
A Kisutu Court Magistrate, Huruma Shaidi yesterday handed the trio a fifteen year jail sentence following their convictions of leading an organized criminal gang.
All three had denied the charges.
Shaidi also ordered them to either pay twice the market value of the elephant tusks or face another two years in prison.
In court documents, prosecutors said Mrs Yang intentionally did organize, manage and finance a criminal racket by collecting, transporting or exporting and selling government trophies weighing a
total of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine tons.
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