Trafficking ‘Godfather’ gets jail term

NEW YORK: Malaysian wildlife smuggler, Teo Boon Ching, also known as the “Godfather” has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in the US for conspiring to traffic hundreds of kilogrammes of rhinoceros horns worth millions of dollars.

The horns were the spoils of the illegal poaching of numerous rhinoceroses, an endangered wildlife species.

The sentence was imposed on Tuesday by court in New York, according to a statement from the US…