4 major traffickers arrested in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring.

4 major traffickers arrested in Abidjan in a crackdown on the notorious Koumassi criminal ring. They were connected to two Asian criminal syndicates and supplied them with large quantities of ivory and pangolin scales. One trafficker has first been arrested more than 300 carved ivory items during a deal and the others arrested in their shops with more than 30 carved ivory items. They have been implicated in our big case of 2018 dismantling Asian organized crime for which one of them has been arrested and jailed already. Arrests carried by the UCT and MINEF.

This is the fruit of three years of work by several EAGLE teams internationally.