SINGAPORE — The director of a trading firm was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Wednesday (Feb 15) for importing 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks from Africa into Singapore, en route to Vietnam.
The tusks of the endangered species weighed 3,480kg and were found in a 40-foot container at Pasir Panjang Scanning Station in March 2018.
Mr Wee also argued that Dao was unaware that the contents of the container were anything else but groundnuts, as stated in documents provided to her. While the judge accepted that the elephant tusks had been packed into the container in Nigeria and that there was no evidence that Dao was aware of this, she said Dao had not taken all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.
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