A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged a man with trading two rhinoceros horns valued at 8.2 million Kenyan shillings ($63,000), nearly nine years after he was convicted in a separate ivory smuggling case.
Feisal Mohamed Ali, alongside co-accused Mohammed Hassan, was arrested last month in the port city of Mombasa.
Both men pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to the charge of dealing in trophies of endangered wildlife species.
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Ali was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison for ivory smuggling but was released on appeal in 2018, two years into his term, after judges cited procedural flaws in the case.
At the time, police accused him of being a key figure in an international poaching network tied to a major seizure of tusks from 120 elephants.
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