Dawie Groenewald was sentenced to a R2 million fine or four years in prison, at the Polokwane High Court, on Wednesday.
Groenewald was awaiting trial on over 1,600 criminal charges related to wildlife trafficking and rhino poaching in South Africa.
He had a poaching business since 2008, known as “Out of Africa” where he allegedly employed professional hunters, sold rhino horns from his own rhinos and from other private rhino owners to Asia.
He was sentenced to a further 10 years’ imprisonment, suspended for five years, on the main count of managing an enterprise (contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act).
All his fines add up to more than R10 million and 36 years’ imprisonment.
Picture: Wildlife Crime Information Network.