Border guards involved in smuggling nearly 1.5 tons of ivory

In the case of seizing nearly 1.5 tons of ivory in Bac Lieu province, the investigation agency determined that soldiers of the Border Guard participated in the illegal transportation.

On October 13, Colonel Nguyen Van Han, Deputy Director of Bac Lieu Provincial Police, said that through initial investigation, it was determined that border guards participated in transporting nearly 1.5 tons of ivory.

In the early morning of September 7, after a period of monitoring, the Bac Lieu Provincial Police discovered that a car with license plate 94C - 017.83 driven by Nguyen Thanh Long (35 years old, residing in Vinh Loi district, Bac Lieu province) was traveling on a road in Nha Mat ward (Bac Lieu city, Bac Lieu province) with many suspicious signs, so they checked and discovered that the car was transporting 49 boxes of goods, containing nearly 1.5 tons of goods suspected to be ivory.

Bac Lieu Provincial Police are making a record of the transportation of nearly 1.5 tons of ivory.

The authorities have appraised and determined that all of the ivory (497 pieces) is real ivory. "The ivory transporters have very sophisticated methods, there are at least 5 groups of subjects and most of them do not know each other.

At the time of arrest, there were 3 subjects (1 driver and 2 companions) carrying out the transportation. Among them was 1 soldier serving a term at the Border Guard Command of Bac Lieu province" - Colonel Han said.

According to the initial statements of the subjects involved, the above mentioned ivory originated from Africa, transported from abroad by sea to Nha Mat estuary. After being brought ashore, this amount of goods will be transferred from Nha Mat ward to Vinh Trach Dong commune (Bac Lieu city) and then divided into many small groups for consumption./.

According to NLĐ