{"id":28683,"date":"2015-03-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/03\/20150320_162928.shtml"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T04:00:00","slug":"10m-in-pangolin-scales-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/03\/20\/10m-in-pangolin-scales-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"$10m in pangolin scales seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/2015\/03\/week3\/scales0320_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department has seized 2,000kg of pangolin scales worth $10 million in Kwai Chung.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Customs officers found the pangolin scales in a shipment arriving from Nigeria on March 17 at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pangolin scales come from an endangered species and were not declared on the manifest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Importing unmanifested cargo is liable to a maximum fine of $2 million and a seven-year jail term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Illegally importing an endangered species without a licence is liable to a maximum fine of $50,000 and six months' imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/2015\/03\/week3\/scales0320_s.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department has seized 2,000kg of pangolin scales worth $10 million in Kwai Chung.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Customs officers found the pangolin scales in a shipment arriving from Nigeria on March 17 at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pangolin scales come from an endangered species and were not declared on the manifest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Importing unmanifested cargo is liable to a maximum fine of $2 million and a seven-year jail term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Illegally importing an endangered species without a licence is liable to a maximum fine of $50,000 and six months' imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28684,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28683\/revisions\/28684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}