Mozambique: Two Ivory Traffickers Arrested
All Africa
July 12, 2024
Maputo — Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has
announced that on Tuesday it aborted an attempted sale of two elephant
tusks in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
According to the Cabo Delgado provincial spokesperson for Sernic, Neomia
Joao, cited in Friday's issue of the independent newsheet "Carta de
Mocambique', the tusks were being sold for 88,000 meticais (about 1,400 US
dollars, at the current exchange rate), or 3,000 meticais a kilo.
The two tusks, which seem to have come from the same animal, weighed 15 and
14 kilos.
Two people were arrested for trying to sell the ivory, and the case has
been remitted to the local branch of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The
two traffickers arrived in Pemba from Palma district, although it is not
yet clear whether the elephant was killed in Palma.
One of the men arrested confirmed to reporters that he had transported the
tusks from Palma, intending to sell them in Pemba.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202407120476.html
Mozambique: Two Ivory Traffickers Arrested
All Africa
July 12, 2024
Maputo — Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has
announced that on Tuesday it aborted an attempted sale of two elephant
tusks in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
According to the Cabo Delgado provincial spokesperson for Sernic, Neomia
Joao, cited in Friday's issue of the independent newsheet "Carta de
Mocambique', the tusks were being sold for 88,000 meticais (about 1,400 US
dollars, at the current exchange rate), or 3,000 meticais a kilo.
The two tusks, which seem to have come from the same animal, weighed 15 and
14 kilos.
Two people were arrested for trying to sell the ivory, and the case has
been remitted to the local branch of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The
two traffickers arrived in Pemba from Palma district, although it is not
yet clear whether the elephant was killed in Palma.
One of the men arrested confirmed to reporters that he had transported the
tusks from Palma, intending to sell them in Pemba.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202407120476.html