The report states that OR Tambo airport 🛫 is a hub for illicit wildlife products, while abalone poaching in SA plays a role in global cocaine trafficking. 🙁 ORTamboAirport trafficking Read more here ⬇️
Although OR Tambo airport was not specifically researched for the report, it was mentioned twice during interviews around the illegal abalone trade.“The first incident involved bribes paid directly to customs officers to allow marked bags to pass through a scanner undetected onto a flight to Hong Kong,” it said. “These bags contained dried abalone.”
“During an active investigation, an undercover source was party to a shipment of dried abalone being dropped at this shipping agent’s premises for special packaging in order to be shipped undetected to Hong Kong via airfreight.” According to the report, the abalone drying process is overseen by global abalone syndicates who control the trade in South Africa, but the drying facilities are often managed by local criminal networks.
“Better the devil you know. We sell to the gangs we know, because when new gangs arrive there is often violence,” said one of the divers interviewed.South African gangs usually sell or exchange the wet abalone directly to Chinese buyers.
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