• East Africa: U.S. Antiques Dealer Sentenced for Rhino Horn Trafficking

    United States Department of State (Washington, DC), 19 February 2013

    A New York antiques dealer was sentenced to serve six months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine to the Lacey Act Reward Account and $18,000 to the Rhino and Tiger Conservation Fund. He also forfeited four rhino head mounts, six black rhino horns, and numerous carved and partially carved real and fake rhino horns seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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