3 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth

3 traffickers arrested with 50 ivory statues, an elephant tail and 11 lion teeth in a crackdown on a major criminal network. The Guinean and Liberian were arrested attempting to sell the ivory denouncing the third - a Senegalese wealthy owner of a jewellery shop, he confessed that lines of supply for the lion teeth to produce necklaces are from Ghana and Nigeria, while elephant tails lines to produce bracelets are from Cameroon.

This ring of trafickers is linked to several infamous ones, including the network of Kromah Moazu, the EAGLE arrest from 2017 in Kampala with 1.3 tons of ivory. The 3 arrested have engaged also in rhino horn trafficking and trafficking of gold and precious stones.

Very good work of Darius and the EAGLE Togo team with the OCRTIDB special unit.