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Matthew Maliango, commonly known as ‘Shetani’ or ‘The Devil’, is one of
Tanzania’s most notorious ivory traffickers. Today he was given a 12-year
sentence,” the PAMS Foundation, which finances the government’s fight against
poaching, wrote on its Facebook page.
The 47-year-old, considered the
biggest ivory trafficker in east Africa, was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September
2015 after a year-long manhunt.
The Elephant Action League, which
fights wildlife crime, said he was believed to be responsible for killing
thousands of elephants at the head of 15 poaching syndicates operating
throughout Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya.
He was sentenced alongside his
brothers, Lucas Mathayo Maliango and Abdallah Ally Chaoga.
The three have been arrested in
October 2015 whereas trying to smuggle tusks price greater than $850,000
He is also accused of leading a
poaching network supplying a 66-year-old Chinese citizen Yang Fenlan known as
the “Ivory Queen”, who is currently on trial in Tanzania for illegally
trafficking 706 elephant tusks price $2.5m between 2000 and 2014.
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