Tanzanian linked to Sh11.4bn ivory haul

A Chinese woman described by investigators as the “kingpin of ivory trading” was yesterday charged with smuggling elephant tusks worth Sh5.4 billion.

It took only 10 minutes – between 7.30pm and 7.40pm – on July 5 for three Chinese nationals to cart through Julius Nyerere International Airport eight travel bags concealing ivory worth over Sh826 million, The Citizen can exclusively reveal today.

Police in Togo say they have arrested three men after finding nearly two tons of ivory in a container destined for Vietnam.

Police in Togo discover a container holding more than two tonnes of ivory destined for Vietnam, the second such find in a week.

Kenya's government says it has seized illegal ivory from at least 114 elephants in the port city of Mombasa, its biggest find this year.

>Ugandan wildlife officers have seized a huge haul of elephant ivory and pangolin scales, representing the deaths of hundreds of endangered animals, police said yesterday.

>A Tanzanian national is among suspects seized over the record $312 million (about Sh500 billion) heroin intercepted by an Australian navy ship last month off the Kenyan coast.

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