LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)– Malawi Police at Lilongwe Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday, arrested a thirty-four year Gambian man for allegedly being connected to the seized 330 kilogram of ivory in Thailand in March this year.

The suspect Mady Conteh is also the seventh person to be arrested in connection with the matter as he was also on the Interpol Red Notice List for crimes against the environment.

According to sources privy to insistence, the ivory in question is equivalent to over 200 elephants. The suspect had been shipping the ivory on an Ethiopian Airways flight from KIA, Lilongwe, via Addis Ababa to Bangkok and was later arrested by Thai authorities as he went to collect the packages. Continue reading Gambian arrested for Thailand’s seized ivory →