South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case
two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what the police say was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end an almost two-decade legal saga. Dawie Groenewald and Tielman Erasmus had faced more than 1 700 charges ranging from illegally hunting and dehorning rhinos to racketeering […] The post South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case appeared first on The Namibian .
two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what the police say was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end an almost two-decade legal saga.
Dawie Groenewald and Tielman Erasmus had faced more than 1 700 charges ranging from illegally hunting and dehorning rhinos to racketeering and money laundering.
Groenewald, described by South African police as the mastermind of the enterprise, was handed a R2 million fine or four years’ imprisonment after reaching a plea deal with the state.
