The ownership of the Henties Bay Seal Products Factory is again being disputed after the company failed in its bid to reclaim 501 boxes of seized seal products The bid to reclaim the products was dismissed in the Katutura Magistrate's Court recently. Seal Products is harvesting and processing a seal quota in their Henties Bay and Lüderitz factories. The controversy began on 10 January when the Namibian Revenue Agency (NAMRA) conducted a coordinated intervention at a warehouse in Sun Industrial Park, Windhoek, shared by Seal Products and Golden Lion Investment CC. Inspector Felix Ndikoma, a member of the Blue Rhino Task Team, a collaboration with several government agencies combating wildlife crime, confiscated 217.1 kilogrammes of dried seal genitals from the warehouse. Seal Products' legal practitioner and director, Hou Xue Cheng, was arrested and charged under the Controlled Wildlife Products and Trade Act but was later released, and the matter was struck from the court roll on 25 April. Charles Jiang, Seal Products representative, filed an urgent application requesting the return of the seized products, claiming the seizure was unlawful.
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