Singapore: The director of a trading firm was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Wednesday (Feb 15) for importing 1,787 pieces of elephant tusks from Africa into Singapore, en route to Vietnam. The tusks of the endangered species weighed 3,480kg and were found in a 40-foot container at Pasir Panjang Scanning Station in March 2018. Vietnam national and Singapore permanent resident Dao Thi Boi, 40, had claimed trial to the charge under the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act. She was the director of VNSG Trading and Song Hong Trading and Logistics at the time. The shipment, which came from Nigeria in Africa, was declared to contain only groundnuts and was marked for re-export to Vietnam. It was intercepted by an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer who had scanned the container. Elephant tusks were found packed inside gunny sacks and hidden among other sacks of groundnuts.