Nine alleged wildlife offenders at the bar in Owando and Dolisie (Republic of the Congo)
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Nine alleged wildlife offenders at the bar in Owando and Dolisie (Republic
of the Congo)
Congo Site
April 7, 2018
See link
https://www.portail242.info/Neuf-presumes-delinquants-fauniques-devant-la-barre-a-Owando-et-Dolisie_a2889.html
for photo.
CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Three hearings on wildlife crime are scheduled for April
11 and 12, 2018, in the Appeals Court of Owando (department of Cuvette) and
Dolisie (department of Niari).
In Owando, the Court of Appeal will investigate and take requisitions, on
April 11, on the case of Konga Daniel, Konga Jacques, and Ngassay Leander,
arrested on September 14, 2017, in the act of detention and the illegal
circulation and attempted marketing of six ivory tusks.
One of these three defendants is a merchant who travels throughout the
country to search for and buy ivory from poachers. He would sell these
ivories to his customers. The other two (father and son) are suppliers of
these products.
In Dolisie, two hearings are scheduled for April 12. The first concerns two
individuals of Congolese nationality. They are being prosecuted for the
possession, transit, circulation and attempted sale of twenty-one pieces of
ivory, eight ivory tusks, representing about five elephants killed.
Arrested red-handed on August 29 in Dolisie, Goma Lunghanu and Mavoungou
Bernes were brought to Dolisie Prison on 1 September 2017. They are big
ivory traffickers whose source of supply is Gabon. One of them would be the
supplier and the other a driver transporting these ivories from Banda
district to Dolisie.
The second case at the Court of Appeal of Dolisie relates to defendants
Gotrand Luther Likibi, Cedric Nzaou, Jeanne Moussonda, and Prince Kombo
Bakala. They were arrested for slaughtering an entirely protected animal
species (the panther), holding, illegal traffic and attempting to market
two panther skins.
All these alleged wildlife offenders were arrested by the officers of the
departmental directorates of Waters and Forests of the Cuvette and Niari
and services of the National Gendarmerie. This, thanks to the information
and support of the Wildlife Law Enforcement Support Project (PALF).
This raid confirms the deep disease permanently endangering pachyderms in
Congo's forests. These defendants incur penalties of up to five (5) years
imprisonment according to the texts regulating this sector.
Because article 27 of the law 37/2008, of November 28, 2008, on the fauna
and the protected areas stipulates: "the importation; export; the
possession and transit through the national territory of fully protected
species; as well as their trophies are strictly forbidden; except special
derogation of the water and forest administration; for the purposes of
scientific research".
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