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Shanghai police arrest Duo for smuggling 50 ivory products
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TWO men have been arrested when entering Shanghai Railway Station on Tuesday with over 50 ivory products illegally imported from Africa, Shanghai railway police said on Wednesday.
The suspects, on the way back to their hometown in Anhui Province for the Spring Festival, allegedly owned up that they purchased the products in Zimbabwe where they worked to sell in China for money.
One of the suspects, a man surnamed Li, was found to have 10 ivory objects wrapped in a cloth bag tied to his waist when going through a security checking gate at the railway station at 9:10pm, police said.
Some more were discovered in his shoulder bag, and 30 objects were found in a suitcase of the other suspect, a man surnamed Cui, when he was about to run away.
Local wild life experts believed that those products were made from ivories of African elephants, which are endangered animals whose ivory products are strictly banned in China, police said.
The two flew in Shanghai and landed at the Pudong International Airport at about 4pm that afternoon and were about to take the train on early Wednesday morning home.
Police said they’ll have to spend the Spring Festival in the detainment center in Shanghai.
If criminally convicted, they could face at least up to five years in jail.
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