Cambodia seizes 600 kilograms of ivory from Africa

[geovalin]

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian customs Friday seized more than 600 kilograms of illegal ivory in a container packed with corn that had languished unclaimed at a port for two years after being shipped from Africa. The haul was made after officials decided to open the container, which had been left at the southwestern port of Sihanoukville weeks after a crackdown on ivory smuggling in 2014.

 

"The shipment arrived at the port more than two years ago... but nobody has come to claim it," Kin Ly, head of the port's customs office. "The elephant tusks were hidden underneath sacks of corn," Kin Ly said, adding that the ivory had been shipped from Africa and was destined for a third country.

 

He was unable to say which country or provide an estimate of how much the tusks worth. In 2014, Cambodia seized more than three tonnes of ivory -- the country's largest-ever haul of elephant tusks -- hidden in a container of beans.

 

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[SOTIRIOS]

....a 2-year limit....

 

...waiting for what....???

 

...even if it could be traced....long gone by now.....

[craigt3365]

1 hour ago, SOTIRIOS said:

....a 2-year limit....

 

...waiting for what....???

 

...even if it could be traced....long gone by now.....

I think we know where it was headed.  Just a bit north....