PETALING JAYA: Malaysian wildlife smuggler Teo Boon Ching has been sentenced to 18 months' jail in the United States for trafficking hundreds of kilograms of rhinoceros horns worth millions of dollars.
Teo Boon Ching, known as the "Godfather," sold a dozen black rhino and white rhino horns to a U.S. government confidential source, federal prosecutors said.
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Teo Boon Ching, a Malaysian wildlife trafficker known as the “Godfather,” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a scheme to hawk at least $2.1 million in poached rhinoceros horns to several buyers - including some in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.