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Confiscated tusks to be destroyed tomorrow
January 25, 2016 06:02 pm
A haul of African elephant tusks confiscated by the Sri Lanka Customs will be destroyed tomorrow, Customs Spokesperson Leslie Gamini says.
He said that the stockpile of tusks will be destroyed at the Galle Face grounds.
The customs had seized about 1.4 tonnes of elephant tusks in the largest ever such seizure in the country in 2012.
The tusks were being transported through Colombo in a container that arrived from Kenya and was bound for Dubai.
The container was stopped at Colombo’s port on May 14, 2012. The officials found 359 ivory tusks, weighing about 1.4 tonnes. This haul of elephant tusks worth at least Rs. 4.2 billion, it was reported.
