The Jiangxi Provincial Forest Public Security Bureau seized 22 million Yuan worth of illegally sold and manufactured ivory in the past year. The Provincial Forest Police seized more than 600 kg of ivory in seven provinces.

Chen Haiyan, a man from Hunan, was stopped at a security checkpoint in Lichuan, Jiangxi by Officer Yao Yong on November 2, 2014. Yao found 22 different cartons of various sizes in Chen’s trunk. “Each held a piece of unprocessed ivory about 10 meters long, carefully wrapped in toilet paper,” said Yao.

The 22 pieces were sent to the Nanjing Forest Police National Center of Forensic Identification. The center verified that the pieces were indeed ivory, and each weighed 13.299 kg.

Chen said that he had purchased the ivory in Shenzhen in 2010 for 8,000 Yuan per kilogram. He had been traveling to Fujian to meet with a potential buyer named Xu.

Xu was soon arrested in Hong Kong. Police raided his rented apartment and found more than 500 kilograms of unprocessed, semi-processed and finished ivory.

Chen was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison in October and fined 200,000 Yuan.

Source: thepaper.cn

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