Playfuls.com
December 21, 2006
Police in northern Vietnam arrested three people after seizing more than 100 kilograms of elephant tusks destined for the ivory trade, an official said Thursday.
Traffic police in Quang Ninh province stopped a taxi en route to Mong Cai Town near the border with China last Saturday and found 26 elephant tusks weighing 117.5 kilograms.
"They were transporting the tusks to the border to send them to China," said Tran Ngoc Duong, a policeman of Quang Ninh province, 150 kilometers east of Hanoi.
Hoang The Vinh, 34, the owner of the tusks, confessed to the police that he had bought the tusks in Nghe An province in central Vietnam for 4.5 million dong (280 dollars) per kilogram, police said.
The arrested, including Vinh, Chu Hong Sang, 39, and Ngo Thi Nga, will be charged with smuggling and violating regulations on protecting wild animals.
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