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                      Interpol Nabs Accused Ivory Smuggler

   by VOA News

   The international police agency Interpol says it has arrested an
   alleged ivory trafficker who had been on the run for months.

   The head of Interpol, Vitalis Okumu, said Tuesday that officers
   apprehended Feisal Ali a day earlier at a rental home in Dar es Salaam,
   Tanzania.

   Ali, a Kenyan national, was on the Interpol "most wanted" list as a
   trafficker of ivory, which is taken from poached elephants.

   He faces charges in Kenya of dealing and possession of elephant tusks.

   The charges stem from an incident in which he was found in possession
   of more than 300 pieces of ivory, about two tons in all.

   Interpol says he also is alleged to be the head of an ivory smuggling
   ring.

   The international ivory trade was banned in the late 1980s as part of
   efforts to protect declining elephant populations. Activists have
   warned the animals are endangered because of poachers killing elephants
   for their ivory tusks.

   Ali was apprehended through an Interpol program targeting environmental
   crimes. The program, called Operation Infra Terra, led to the arrest of
   another ivory smuggler, Ben Simaskiu, in Zambia three weeks ago.

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