(CN) Four Jailed For Smuggling Macaques

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Story Filed: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:18 PM EST

 

ZHENGZHOU (Dec. 2) XINHUA - Four people in central China's

Henan province have been imprisoned for trafficking macaques, a

variety of monkey that is protected in China.

 

Huang Jun'an and Ge Huaping were sentenced to 11-year imprisonment,

while Ma Zige and Ma Guizhen will be jailed for eight and seven years

respectively. Each of the smugglers were fined 10,000 yuan (1,300 US dollars).

 

Earlier this year, the police in Xuchang county of Henan province found

in a microbus 99 caged macaques, one of which was dead. Police detained

the suspects immediately.

 

Under interrogation it was found that the four smugglers have transported

and sold more than 300 macaques.