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
SINGAPORE: The director of a trading firm was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Wednesday for importing 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks from Africa into Singapore, en route to Vietnam.
It was intercepted by an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer who had scanned the container.Dao's lawyer Wee Pan Lee argued that his client did not import the tusks into Singapore as the shipper, a company in Nigeria that was not linked to Dao, had stuffed and sealed the container at the port of origin and was responsible for its contents.
District Judge Ong Chin Rhu convicted Dao of the charge, saying that guilty knowledge that there were elephant tusks in the container for import was not a necessary ingredient of the offence. These include a Vietnamese client's instructions to Dao to change the description of the goods, and Dao's knowledge that her client wanted to import goods into Singapore before re-exporting them in order to mask their origin.
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