A court in China sentenced 27 people to prison and imposed fines for smuggling antimony ingots without export licences, highlighting Beijing’s stricter enforcement of its controls on strategic minerals. The main defendant, Wang Wubin, received a 12-year sentence for organising the illegal shipments.
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