Singapore jails South African for smuggling rhino horns

A Singapore court sentenced a South African man to two years in jail on Friday for smuggling rhino horns, and it is the heaviest sentence ever handed down in the city-state for trafficking wildlife parts. He was arrested at Singapore's Changi airport in 2022 after authorities found 20 rhino horn pieces in his bags.

Sniffer dogs detected the contraband in his baggage while he was travelling from South Africa to Laos through Singapore. The pieces were worth about Singapore dollars 1.2 million and it is the city-state's largest seizure of rhino horn.