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'Ivory Queen' Yang Fenglan jailed in Tanzania
Source: BBC
'Ivory Queen' Yang Fenglan jailed in Tanzania
19 February 2019
Tanzania has sentenced Yang Fenglan, a Chinese businesswoman nicknamed the "Ivory Queen", to 15 years in jail for smuggling hundreds of elephant tusks.
Yang was accused of operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, responsible for smuggling $2.5m (£1.9m) worth of tusks from some 400 elephants.
Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring.
Ivory poaching is said to have caused a 20% decline in the population of African elephants in the last decade.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47294715
Yang Fenglan was a leading figure in business circles at the time of her arrest
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