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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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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.
·United States
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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.
·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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