Maputo, 20 Apr (AIM) – The National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) has seized four teeth and 14 claws of lions in the central Mozambican city of Beira.
According to the SERNIC spokesperson in Sofala, Alfeu Sitoe, the trophies were in the possession of a 38 year-old man, who was caught red-handed.
“We questioned Luis [the arrested man] and asked him where he found the trophies. He claimed that he got them from two men, Farias and Azevedo. He said he does not know the men but they promised to give him money”, the spokesperson said, cited in the Beira dally “Diário de Moçambique.”
Sitoe said that the man has been practicing illicit acts for a long time and he has sold the same products to a group of citizens from Maputo.
“He is a poacher and he has been involved in other cases”, he said, adding that efforts are under way to locate more people involved in the illicit trade in wild life trophies.
Recently, in the same city, a man was detained by the Police while he was trying to sell elephant tusks weighing nine kilos.
(AIM)
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