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Chinese national Zhang Kequn has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined Sh1 million for attempting to smuggle about 2,000 live queen garden ants (Messor cephalotes) through Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Kequn's case is not isolated. It is similar to another incident reported last year when two Belgian teenagers, a Vietnamese national, and a Kenyan were convicted for trafficking over 5,000 prized ants-also destined for the exotic pet trade in Europe and Asia.
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