Ivory smugglers fail with sweet tooth lie
Julie Colthorpe - [email protected]
Published: 12 May, 2014 CET.
Updated: Mon 12 May 2014 17:16 CET
Customs officers hit the jackpot when they searched a trio on the German border who said all they had was sweets - they found 60 kilos of elephant tusks.
They stopped a minibus coming from the Czech Republic last Wednesday as it entered Germany near Regensburg, Bavaria.
The two men and one woman in the bus said they were heading for Frankfurt - and insisted they only had edible things with them.
"We only have sweets and food, they're not illegal are they?" the 36-year-old driver asked the officers when he was stopped.
But when the suspicious officers searched the bus, they found four suitcases stuffed with elephant tusks.
The smugglers are expected to be charged with violating the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
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They stopped a minibus coming from the Czech Republic last Wednesday as it entered Germany near Regensburg, Bavaria.
The two men and one woman in the bus said they were heading for Frankfurt - and insisted they only had edible things with them.
"We only have sweets and food, they're not illegal are they?" the 36-year-old driver asked the officers when he was stopped.
But when the suspicious officers searched the bus, they found four suitcases stuffed with elephant tusks.
The smugglers are expected to be charged with violating the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
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