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Court fines trio Sh1m each over illegal sale of elephant tusks

Elephant tusks impounded by police inside a private car at Pakawa estate in Nakuru in June. Three suspects have been convicted by an Eldoret Court for selling tusks. [File, Standard]

A court in Eldoret has fined three men Sh1 million each or one-year imprisonment after they were arrested in possession of two pieces of elephant tusks each weighing five kilogrammes worth Sh400,000.

John Panyako, Evans Chelulei and Jonathan Kiptanui were convicted after the court found them guilty of committing the offence on January 6, 2016.

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