Two subjects arrested for transporting 37 kg of rhino horn

(Baonghean.vn) - The Police Department investigating crimes related to economic management order and positions of Nghe An Police has just arrested two subjects: Doan Duy Dinh (born in 1983) residing in Xuan Tin commune, Tho Xuan district, Thanh Hoa and Le Thanh Trung (born in 1983) residing in Son Cong commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi, who were illegally transporting a large amount of animal horns.

Through the work of grasping the situation, the Criminal Police Department of Economic and Official Management of Nghe An Police learned that two subjects were transporting a large number of horns of rare wild animals by train from Ho Chi Minh City to Nghe An. A working group was arranged to intercept the two subjects. At 11:40 p.m. on May 8, at Sy Market Station in Dien Ky Commune, Dien Chau District, Nghe An, the working group arrested the two subjects red-handed. The seized evidence was three travel bags containing 31 large and small animal horns, with a total weight of 37 kg.

The subjects and exhibits at the authorities

At the police station, the horns were identified as rhino horns. Doan Duy Dinh confessed that on May 5, a stranger asked him to go to Ho Chi Minh City to transport the goods to Nghe An and he would be paid 40,000,000 VND. Dinh accepted and invited Le Thanh Trung to go with him. On May 7, the two went to Ho Chi Minh City to receive the goods and then bought train tickets to Nghe An. When they arrived at Sy Market Station, they were discovered and arrested.

The investigation agency is consolidating the case file to handle the subjects before the law and at the same time continuing to expand the investigation of the case.

Huu Thanh