Customs officers in the Chinese Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have confiscated 368.5 kg of ivory, which were trafficked from Africa into the country via its border with Vietnam.
Three suspects were detained at scene. The 165 elephant tusks, worth over 29 million CNY (4.4 million USD), were illegally transported to Pingxiang city on the night of November 13 and were captured by customs officers the next day, a Nanning official said on December 8. Nanning is the capital of the region.
According to China’s State Forestry Administration, in 2016, the amount of smuggled ivory seized in China dropped by 80 percent from previous peak years.
The local law stipulates that the smuggling of precious animal products worth more than 1 million CNY can be punished with over 10 years in prison or a life sentence.
China will stop commercial processing and sales of ivory by the end of this year.-VNA
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Thursday, 31 August 2017
Chinese national exported $700K worth of ivory and horns through Mass. shipping business, authorities say
A Chinese national was charged with shipping $700,000 worth of elephant ivory, rhinoceros horns and coral through a Concord-based shipping business in what federal officials are calling a wildlife smuggling ring.
Guan Zong Chen was arrested and extradited in 2015 while traveling from China to Australia and made his first appearance in court when he was arraigned in Boston federal court Monday, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release.
Authorities say Chen purchased wildlife artifacts from U.S. auction houses in California, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Texas to resell in Hong Kong.
He allegedly took on a Chinese college graduate as a co-conspirator, who was tasked with traveling to the U.S. to prepare the goods for export.
The graduate would either hand deliver or mail the wildlife goods to a shipping business in Concord, which would then have them repackaged and smuggled into Hong Kong, authorities said.
The wildlife goods were allegedly shipped in packages with documents that falsely stated their contents and value.
Authorities noted one example from 2014 in which Chen visited the United States to meet with the Concord shipper and instructed them to smuggle an ivory-made sculpture by falsely stating it was made out of wood and worth only $50.
Trading in rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory and coral has been regulated since 1976. Exporting certain wildlife goods that were not imported before 1975 and without proper documentation can result in a $650,000 fine and up to two years in prison.
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Guan Zong Chen was arrested and extradited in 2015 while traveling from China to Australia and made his first appearance in court when he was arraigned in Boston federal court Monday, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release.
Authorities say Chen purchased wildlife artifacts from U.S. auction houses in California, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Texas to resell in Hong Kong.
He allegedly took on a Chinese college graduate as a co-conspirator, who was tasked with traveling to the U.S. to prepare the goods for export.
The graduate would either hand deliver or mail the wildlife goods to a shipping business in Concord, which would then have them repackaged and smuggled into Hong Kong, authorities said.
The wildlife goods were allegedly shipped in packages with documents that falsely stated their contents and value.
Authorities noted one example from 2014 in which Chen visited the United States to meet with the Concord shipper and instructed them to smuggle an ivory-made sculpture by falsely stating it was made out of wood and worth only $50.
Trading in rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory and coral has been regulated since 1976. Exporting certain wildlife goods that were not imported before 1975 and without proper documentation can result in a $650,000 fine and up to two years in prison.
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Saturday, 5 August 2017
Hong Kong seizes $9m worth of ivory in Malaysia shipment
Hong Kong customs officials said Thursday they have seized more than $9 million worth of ivory this week in the city’s biggest haul in 30 years.
Customs officers discovered 15,900 pounds of elephant tusks on Tuesday in a shipment that orginated in Malaysia that had been labeled as frozen fish, the Customs and Excise Department announced
Customs officers displayed samples of the tusks piled on the floor at their offices close to some of Hong Kong’s giant container ports.
The department said three people at a trading company in Hong Kong have been arrested in connection with the shipment.
Hong Kong, which is a major transshipment hub for illicit wildlife products, is preparing to ban local ivory sales by 2021.
But under Hong Kong’s customs regulations, anyone found importing or exporting endangered species without a license or trying to smuggle such items into or out of the territory faces possible fines and imprisonment.
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Customs officers discovered 15,900 pounds of elephant tusks on Tuesday in a shipment that orginated in Malaysia that had been labeled as frozen fish, the Customs and Excise Department announced
Customs officers displayed samples of the tusks piled on the floor at their offices close to some of Hong Kong’s giant container ports.
The department said three people at a trading company in Hong Kong have been arrested in connection with the shipment.
Hong Kong, which is a major transshipment hub for illicit wildlife products, is preparing to ban local ivory sales by 2021.
But under Hong Kong’s customs regulations, anyone found importing or exporting endangered species without a license or trying to smuggle such items into or out of the territory faces possible fines and imprisonment.
Please credit and share this article with others using this link:https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/07/06/hong-kong-seizes-worth-ivory-malaysia-shipment/xM1t1Bcr6xsCxve9UHiIyK/story.html
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