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Tanzanian police have arrested a Kenyan ivory trafficker, said to be one of the nine most wanted environmental crime fugitives around the world.
Reports on Tuesday said Feisal Ali Mohamed was arrested in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.
"The officers from Nairobi are with their counterparts in Tanzania conducting further search in his house. He is in custody," the head of International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Nairobi, Vitalis Okumu, said.
Authorities say police were searching for Mohamed since the seizure of more than 200 elephant tusks in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa back in June.
He was listed as one of the nine most wanted environmental criminals by Interpol in November.
"Feisal Mohamed is probably responsible for the deaths of thousands of elephants not just in Kenya, but across Africa," Paula Kahumbu, the head of the environmentalist organization, Wildlife Direct, said.
Figures show that in 2013, 302 elephants were slaughtered in Kenya by poachers.
According to a United Nations report, more than 11,000 elephants were killed in northeastern Gabon between 2004 and 2013, over 300 elephants were slaughtered in Cameroon in the last two months of 2012, and 86 elephants were slain in Chad in less than a week in March 2013.
Environmentalists have warned that poaching is once again on the rise.
Source: presstv.com
Reports on Tuesday said Feisal Ali Mohamed was arrested in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.
"The officers from Nairobi are with their counterparts in Tanzania conducting further search in his house. He is in custody," the head of International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Nairobi, Vitalis Okumu, said.
Authorities say police were searching for Mohamed since the seizure of more than 200 elephant tusks in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa back in June.
He was listed as one of the nine most wanted environmental criminals by Interpol in November.
"Feisal Mohamed is probably responsible for the deaths of thousands of elephants not just in Kenya, but across Africa," Paula Kahumbu, the head of the environmentalist organization, Wildlife Direct, said.
Figures show that in 2013, 302 elephants were slaughtered in Kenya by poachers.
According to a United Nations report, more than 11,000 elephants were killed in northeastern Gabon between 2004 and 2013, over 300 elephants were slaughtered in Cameroon in the last two months of 2012, and 86 elephants were slain in Chad in less than a week in March 2013.
Environmentalists have warned that poaching is once again on the rise.
Source: presstv.com
