8 people sentenced to prison for smuggling endangered eels in $2 million operation
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Slippery business: France jails men over eel smuggling
A French court on Thursday sentenced eight people to up to five years for smuggling eel larvae destined for Asian markets, in a scheme worth about two million euros that prosecutors likened to cocaine trafficking.

Val-de-Marne: Up to five years in prison for eight defendants involved in glass eel trafficking
They were sentenced on Thursday to prison terms of up to five years for participating in the trafficking of eel larvae caught on the Atlantic coast for Asian markets.
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