15 kg of rhino horns seized at Vietnamese airport
VOV.VN -Customs officers in Hanoi were able to seize nearly 15kg of rhino horns at Noi Bai International Airport. The shipment itself had supposedly entered Vietnam from a foreign country.
Officials working at the airport were able to confiscate the rhino horns upon discovering them. |
The packages containing rhino horns had been carefully wrapped in order to pass through customs undetected. |
Customs officers made the discovered upon conducting an examination of the shipment. |
The rhino horns themselves had been wrapped in aluminum foil. |
Each rhino horn weighs in the excess of several kilograms. |
Due to their size, each rhino horn is cut into two or three separate pieces. |
In total, the smuggled rhino horns weighed 15 kgs. |
A foreign national suspected of being involved in the smuggling operation was forced to write a report at the scene. |