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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1994

THE MAXIMUM

PENALTIES

25

OF

ON

FIRST

$25,000 INCLUDE A FINE OFFENCE AND A $50,000 FINE PLUS SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT ON SUBSEQUENT

MANDATORILY SEIZED PRODUCTS WILL BE

OFFENCES.

CONVICTION.

THE

PROPOSALS HAVE ALSO BEEN MADE TO SUBSTANTIALLY PENALTIES UNDER THE ORDINANCE, HE SAID.

FORFEITED UPON

INCREASE THE

INVESTIGATIONS ON YESTERDAY'S CASE ARE BEING CARRIED PROSECUTION WILL BE INSTITUTED AGAINST THE OFFENDER.

OUT AND

WOULD

IN

MR CHAN ALSO POINTED OUT THAT STRICT ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS MAINTAINED TO DETER AND SUPPRESS THE TERRITORY'S ILLEGAL TRADE ENDANGERED SPECIES.

BE

SINCE NOVEMBER

1,

AFD HAS CONDUCTED

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SEARCHES

ON

LOCAL OF MEDICINAL SHOPS, RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF SOME $3 MILLION WORTH

BEAR GALL ENDANGERED SPECIES. THESE INCLUDE YESTERDAY'S SUSPECTED

CLAIMING ΤΟ CONTAIN BLADDERS AND MUSK GRAIN, AS WELL AS MEDICINES RHINO AND TIGER INGREDIENTS, PANGOLIN SCALES AND DRIED CROCODILE MEAT.

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OPERATION TO FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

* * * * *

A TERRITORY-WIDE OPERATION AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MOUNTED

BY THE POLICE HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 98 PEOPLE.

THE OPERATION IS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUOUS EFFORT FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

ΤΟ

THE 98 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED BY THE POLICE HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. THOSE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (THURSDAY) THAT THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

"OUR LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT WILL

BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY. ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING ONESELF, HE SAID.

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THAT THERE TO BELIEVE

THE SPOKESMAN STRESSED THAT APART FROM CONTINUOUS CHECKS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY, THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EFFORTS AT THE BORDER.

"A

HIGH STATE OF VIGILANCE WILL CONTINUE TO BE MAINTAINED BY THE POLICE AND THE SECURITY FORCES BOTH AT THE LAND AND SEA HE SAID,

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BORDERS,

DURING THE OPERATION, WHICH BEGAN AT 5 AM YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) AND ENDED AT 5 AM TODAY, THE POLICE STEPPED UP SPOT CHECKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND CARRIED OUT LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

THE IR CHECKS

AT

IDENTIFICATION SUSPICIOUS

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