Vietnam confiscates 90kg of elephant tusks, ivory artifacts allegedly smuggled from  The elephant tusks and ivory artifacts that were seized by customs officers at As written on the airway bill, the consignor of the package is L.J.J. and the consignee is T.L.O. The goods, weighing over 90 kilograms in total, were declared as food. The smuggled goods were suspected of being sent from Africa and they arrived at the airport in Customs officers have seized all the tusks and ivory artifacts, worth VND4 billion ($188,271), for investigation. Many similar ivory smuggling cases have been cracked in recent years in The most recent case occurred about two weeks ago, when customs officers at the same airport found 77 African elephant tusks, worth over $200,000, stashed in a parcel previously declared to contain personal belongings. As indicated in the airway bill, the consignor of the package is B.J., the consignee is S.S., and the goods are declared as private possessions. The package was suspected to have been sent from By far the biggest interception of elephant tusks in The international trade in elephant tusks has been prohibited since 1989 after the population of the African giants sharply decreased to some 600,000 by the end of the 1980s from millions in the mid-20th century, AFP reported. Tuoitrenews |
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