smugglers
-
A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced three people to prison over the smuggling of nearly two dozen rhinoceros horns from Ethiopia worth $1.5m. The bags carrying the 21 horns were discovered in March last year in a random customs search at Bangkok’s main airport. Officials found the horns, weighing almost 50 kg, inside luggage…
-
A total of 300 migrants have reportedly been forced from boats over the past two days by smugglers off the coast of Yemen – many feared dead or missing, the United Nations migration agency has reported. “The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them into the sea when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the…
-
A white-haired old man was caught by customs officials as he attempted laundering outrageously huge amount of U.S. dollars from China’s borderline city, Shenzhen to Hong Kong. The hefty-looking man unknowingly tipped off the police because there’s hardly an easy way to strap $74,000 around the waist without drawing attention. Reports say the hard cash made him…
You must be logged in to post a comment.