{"id":21168,"date":"2016-03-09T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:22:42","slug":"auction-official-beverly-hills-gallery-admits-conspiring-smuggle-rhino-horns-elephant-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=21168","title":{"rendered":"Auction Official at Beverly Hills Gallery Conspired to Smuggle Rhino Horns, Elephant Ivory Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20969 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Rhino\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rhino-95x64.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The senior auction official at Beverly Hills Gallery plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The products had a value of about $1 million, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Joseph Chait<\/strong> faces up to five years in prison for conspiring to smuggle wildlife products and up to five years in prison for violating the Lacey Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJoseph Chait and his co-conspirators trafficked in wildlife worth a market value of at least $1 million, deliberately flouting laws put in place to protect endangered species such as rhinoceros,\u201d said U.S. Attorney <strong>Preet Bharara.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chait\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for June 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Justice\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cRhinos and elephants have been on earth for millennia but are now at grave risk due to the illegal wildlife trade,\u201d said <strong>John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cThe United States and other destination markets have a special responsibility to help save these beloved creatures from extinction. Those in the auction industry need to be responsible and not turn a blind eye to the fact that trade in protected animal parts is highly regulated.\u00a0 Illegal wildlife trafficking takes many forms and those who deliberately break the rules and engage in smuggling will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>According to the evidence submitted in court, this is what happened:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chait and his co-conspirators engaged in illegal trafficking of wildlife with a market value of at least $1 million.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chait personally falsified customs forms by stating that rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory items were made of bone, wood or plastic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For example, during Asia Week in New York City in or about March 2011, Chait was approached about the potential sale of a carving of Guanyin, an East Asian spiritual figure made from rhinoceros horn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Despite knowing that it was not a genuine antique, Chait and his co-conspirators accepted the Rhino Carving for consignment, advertised the sale to foreign clients in China and put the Rhino Carving on the cover of Auction House-1\u2019s catalogue in connection with an auction of Asian art and antiques.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After the Rhino Carving sold at auction for $230,000, Chait offered to make a false document for the buyer to help the buyer smuggle the item out of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> The fake invoice falsely stated that the item cost $108.75 and was made of plastic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chait and his co-conspirators also sold ivory carvings to another foreign customer and provided those carvings to that customer\u2019s courier, even after learning that the customer had been arrested in China for smuggling ivory purchased from Chait\u2019s auction house.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Chait and his co-conspirators also conspired to aid smuggling in other ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Wildlife items were shipped to or picked up by third party shippers, who then re-shipped the items out of the country to foreign buyers without the required declaration or permits, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Members of the conspiracy provided packing materials to foreign wildlife buyers to assist them in handcarrying the wildlife out of the country, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign wildlife buyers where not charged a state sales tax if they showed a foreign passport and itinerary for an international flight as proof the item would be leaving the country which Chait and his co-conspirators knew was insufficient time to obtain an export permit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Protected wildlife was smuggled into the United States without declaration or permits and then sold at auction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rhinoceros are an herbivore species of prehistoric origin and one of the largest remaining mega-fauna on earth. They have no known predators other than humans, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The trade in rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory has been restricted since 1976 under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a treaty signed by over 170 countries around the world, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Trade in protected wildlife such as rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory has been significantly restricted in the last two years as the result of a Presidential Executive Order except for those instances where sellers can prove that the item is a genuine antique that is more than 100 years of age, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior auction official at Beverly Hills Gallery admitted to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral.<br \/>\nThe products had a value of about $1 million, according to officials.<br \/>\nJoseph Chait faces up to five years in prison for conspiring to smuggle wildlife products and up to five years in prison for violating the Lacey Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[2333,2331,2332,387],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-main-slider","category-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-auction","tag-endangered-wildlife","tag-ivory","tag-rhinoceros"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Auction Official at Beverly Hills Gallery Conspired to Smuggle Rhino Horns, Elephant Ivory Products<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The senior auction official at Beverly Hills Gallery admitted to conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral. 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