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Two officials of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment who were arrested in 2018 for allegedly colluding with abalone poachers by illegally selling seized abalone back and escorting illegal abalone shipments have been sentenced to fiv

The Khayelitsha Regional Court yesterday slapped members of an abalone syndicate with a suspended sentence. An investigation by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) exposed a syndicate involved with the poaching, buying, and selling of illicit abalone in the Western Cape as well as in the Gauteng area during February 2020. All the suspects were arrested during February 2020 including a Chinese buyer and processor. On the 19 April 2021 the accused entered into Sec 105A plea ...