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Ant smuggler sentenced to a year in jail by Kenyan court
A Chinese national, Zhang Kequn, was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $7,700 by a Kenyan court for attempting to smuggle over 2,200 ants, including 1,948 Messor cephalotes, from Nairobi to China. The judge cited the need for a deterrent due to rising cases and ecological harm.
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