Rhino horn ring gored
Rhino horns. File photo.
Image by: BOBBY YIP / REUTERS
Image by: BOBBY YIP / REUTERS
US Federal wildlife investigators say they have broken up an international smuggling ring that trafficked in sawed-off rhinoceros horns for buyers in Vietnam and China who believe they cure cancer.
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The Los Angeles Times said more than 150 federal agents led raids on homes and businesses in a dozen states at the weekend.
Three of the alleged traffickers caught in southern California were Jimmy Kha, 49, his girlfriend Mai Nguyen, 41, and Kha's son Felix, 26.
US Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe said officials had shut down a major source of black market rhino horns in the lucrative international trade.
Officials also seized more than $1-million in cash, $1-million in gold bars, diamonds, Rolex watches and 20 rhino horns in the raids.
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