Editor’s note, November 2026
On appeal, the High Court reduced Lemtongthai’s sentence to 30 years in August 2013, and the Supreme Court of Appeal reduced it to 13 years and a R1 million fine in September 2014. He was released on parole in September 2018, after serving just under six years, and deported to Thailand.
Julian Rademeyer in conversation with EWN reporter Alex Eliseev about the conviction and 40-year jail sentence meted out to rhino horn trafficker Chumlong Lemtongthai, one of the central characters in Killing for Profit.
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