2015-05-15) The Mozambican police have
arrested a second Chinese
citizen in connection with
Tuesday’s seizure of 1.3 tonnes
of ivory and rhino horns,
reports Thursday’s issue of the independent newssheet
“Mediafax”.
The first Chinese was arrested
at the house in the southern
city of Matola where the police
discovered 65 rhino horns and 340 elephant tusks, which were
being packaged ready to be
smuggled out of the country.
This was the largest ever haul
of illicit wildlife products in
Mozambican history, and has a street value of about 1.3
million US dollars.
The second Chinese was
arrested on Wednesday
morning, when he attempted
to secure the release of his colleague by offering the
Matola police a large bribe.
At the police station he
claimed that he had been sent
by the Chinese embassy to look
into the situation of the his detained fellow-countryman.
Then he pulled 1.2 million
meticais (about 34,700 US
dollars) and slapped it on the
table as the price for his
colleague’s release. But not only did thepoliceman
with whom he was attempting
to negotiate reject the bribe –
he promptly arrested him and
charged him with attempting
to bribe a police officer. “The work ahead of us now is
to find out where these goods
came from and what was their
intended destination”, the
spokesperson for the Maputo
Provincial Police Command, Emidio Mabunda, told
“Mediafax”.
The police have not released
the names of either of the two
Chinese now under arrest.
Source: AIM
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