The defendants Yang Y. and Jipeng Z. charged with felony counts of illegally purchasing, transporting and selling threatened and endangered wildlife and products (appellate case)
From June 2014 to April 22, 2015, Yang Y. successively hired Jipeng Z. to process and make ivory jewellery in a bungalow. Yang Y. published pictures of ivory products by WeChat, contacted buyers for sales. Later, 10.945 kilograms of ivory products were seized in the studio, which were valued at RMB 456,045.