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Friday, July 15, 2022
Volume:
38
Issue:
7
Abstract:
On July 12, 2022, Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mjangi, 32, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle to conspiracy and Lacey Act charges. On November 3, 2021, indictments were issued on eleven counts concerning trafficking wildlife from the DRC to Seattle. The court scheduled the sentencing hearing for November 1.[1]
[1] U.S. Department of Justice, Two Foreign Nationals Plead Guilty to Trafficking Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn from the Democratic of the Congo, Press Rel. No. 22-745, July 13, 2022.