The hefty sentences handed down to two abalone smugglers in the Khayelitsha Priority Court on Friday is welcomed by SAPS and we regard it as a stern warning directed at those involved in this lucrative trade.
The two Chinese nationals, aged 31 and 48, were sentenced with a fine of R1 million each and five years imprisonment of which three years are suspended for a period of five years on a total of seven counts in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act and the Criminal Procedure Act.
They were apprehended early this year during February at a warehouse in Killarney Gardens during a police operation where abalone with a combined total value of R9 million were confiscated.
The police will stop at nothing to break the back of abalone smuggling in this province.
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