'Ivory Queen' gets 15 years for smuggling

By Fumbuka Ng'Wanakilala
Updated February 20 2019 - 5:41am, first published 5:40am
Chinese businesswoman Yang Feng Glan has been jailed in Tanzania for smuggling 2 tonnes of ivory.
Chinese businesswoman Yang Feng Glan has been jailed in Tanzania for smuggling 2 tonnes of ivory.

A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes, to Asia.

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