Southern District of New York | Teo Boon Ching Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Large-Scale Trafficking Of Rhinoceros Horns
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 20, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TEO BOON CHING, a/k/a “Zhang,” a/k/a “Dato Sri,” a/k/a “Godfather,” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to traffic hundreds of kilograms of rhinoceros horns worth millions of dollars that involved the illegal poaching of numerous rhinoceros, an endangered wildlife species. The sentence was imposed earlier today by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty.
CHING, who was extradited from Thailand, is the sixth large-scale wildlife trafficker sentenced in cases recently brought . . .
