Surur and Ahmed were also charged with conspiracy to launder money and distribute heroin.
Abubakar Mansur Mohammed Surur was detained for alleged"ivory-related offences" after he landed in the coastal city in a chartered plane flown from Yemen, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said on Twitter.
In a June 2019 indictment, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration charged Surur and three others with conspiracy to traffic at least 190 kg of rhino horn and 10 tonnes of ivory worth more than $7 million. The DEA said last year that Surur and another Kenyan, Abdi Hussein Ahmed “Abu Khadi,” were on the run while a Liberian suspect was in custody in the United States and a Guinean suspect detained in Senegal pending extradition.The quartet had run their enterprise out of Uganda and neighbouring countries between 2012 and last year, according to the DEA indictment.
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