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Hunter caught smuggling game 7/5/2005
Cape Nature Conservation expects further arrests after busting a game smuggling syndicate. Last week, professional hunter Frank Minnaar was convicted of smuggling more than 1,000 protected animals into the Western Cape. He was fined R750,000 rand or nine years in jail. Seven years and R550,000 of his sentence was suspended for five years. Minnaar and helicopter pilot Gerald Peter were arrested last year after officals caught them red-handed rounding up game in the Karoo, near Murraysburg. Cape Nature Conservation's Paul Gildenhuys says it's a triumph for conservation.