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Ethiopia Smuggling
File image of an Ethiopian Federal High Court by Voice of America (VOA) via Wikimedia Commons

Smuggling: Chinese national gets 9-year prison term in Ethiopia

| @indiablooms | Mar 17, 2022, at 04:38 am

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has sentenced a Chinese national to nine years in jail for reportedly trying to smuggle highly censored communication gear into the country, media reports said.

According to the statement, Lee Nayong, the Chinese national the ministry referred to as ‘a foreign national’ was arrested at Bole International Airport last year and was arranged in court where he was given the legal opportunity to defend himself but failed to do so, Sudans Post reported.

“A foreigner who smuggled a telecom device into Ethiopia for telecom fraud was sentenced to a 9-year prison term and fine,” the country's ministry of justice said as quoted by the news portal, adding that the suspect “was charged with violating the provisions of Article 3 (1) of the Proclamation No. 761/2004 on the Elimination of Telecom Fraud.”

The statement said the Chinese national had “entered the Bole International Airport in Ethiopia without the permission of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology [and] imported two 8-SIM and 16-SIM card gateway devices for telecom fraud.”

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