Dealer found guilty of illegal ivory smuggling

A Kent dealer has received a two-year suspended sentence following a three-year international operation into ivory and whale-tooth smuggling. The case is the latest under Operation Charm, an ongoing campaign against the illegal trade in endangered species in London.

Michael Elliot, 57, a regular at the Newark, Ardingly and Swinderby fairs, was described in court as…

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