Yeng Fen Glan Research Paper

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Yeng Feng Glan, a 66-year-old Chinese woman known to many as the Ivory Queen, and two Tanzanian men were taken into custody by Tanzanian officials on October 8th, 2015. She had returned to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from her home in Uganda which gave Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit or NTSCIU the chance to arrest her. It is believed that she has been in the Tanzanian Ivory Trade since 2006. A local paper reports that Yeng has been accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks, worth about $2.5 million, and she faces up to 30 years in prison. She is thought to be one of the most notorious traffickers of ivory brought to charges so far and, overall, this is a victory for those who stand against the trading of ivory

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