Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Mongabay
Apr 26, 2017, 2:23 pm171 pts
In a major reversal late last month, a high court in Singapore found Wong Wee Keong and his company, Kong Hoo, guilty of illegally importing rosewood from Madagascar, after a lower court had found them not guilty. Authorities seized Kong Hoo’s rosewood shipment at a Singapore port in early 2014, saying it…

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