The defendants Xiaolan Q., Jicai Z. and others charged felony counts of illegally purchasing, transporting or selling rare and endangered wild animals and their manufactured products (appellate case)
From January 2017 to March 2018, Xiaolan Q. and Jicai Z. successively illegally purchased 35 pangolins from Su (sentenced) for many times, knowing that pangolins were under second class state protecion and without obtaining a franchise license.