A court in Nairobi on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national named Zhang Kequn to a year in prison, plus a fine of one million shillings ($7,737), for trying to smuggle live ants out of Kenya.
Zhang was busted at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi last month with over 2,200 live garden ants concealed in his luggage. About 300 of them were concealed in rolls of tissue paper, while the other 1,948 ants were packed into small tubes.
Zhang managed to slip away from airport police with a fake passport, but was recaptured soon afterward. He was charged with trafficking wildlife without a permit. The Kenyan man who provided him with…
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