Unknown to him, the ship that he had so tightly run for close to a decade had sprung a leak. The street value of this, stood at more than Sh730 million, money which they used to expand their trade and become one of the biggest wildlife smuggling rings in the world. “Let’s meet.” On the 17th of that month, Surur met with the informant, offering to sell him some four rhino horns weighing 4.2 kilograms. The Surur network was so strong that in just three days, the rhino horns had left Dakar and were on transit to New York. “As alleged, these defendants are members of an international conspiracy to traffic in not only heroin but also rhino horns and elephant ivory.

Source: Standard Digital July 30, 2020 17:15 UTC