New York.- The 60-year-old Kenyan Mansur Mohamed Surur was extradited to the United States on Monday, accused of integrating a conspiracy to traffic at least 190 kilos of rhino horn and at least 10 tons of ivory, valued at 7, 4 million dollars, reported the prosecution of Manhattan.
Mansur Mohamed Surur, is accused of five crimes that include smuggling linked to the killing of some 35 rhinos and more than 100 elephants, both protected wild species, as well as money laundering and conspiracy to distribute more than 10 kilos of heroin, the prosecution said in a statement.
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Mansur Mohamed Surur.
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If found guilty, he may be sentenced to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Mansur was arrested in Kenya seven months ago, arriving from Yemen, while two other Mansur co-defendants were extradited to U.S from Uganda and Senegal in 2019 and April 2020. A fourth Kenyan defendant remains fugitive.
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From December 2012 to May 2019, the defendants “conspired to transport, distribute, sell and smuggle at least 190 kilos of rhino horn and at least 10 tons of elephant ivory” from or through various East African countries, for buyers in the United States or Southeast Asia, depending on prosecutors.
The defendants shipped the prohibited goods hidden in shipments of African art such as masks and statues, and used the US financial system for illegal transactions, the indictment notes.
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Mansur and his partners had several conversations about an eventual rhino horn sale with a confidential source in US authorities, resulting in several shipments being seized, investigators said.
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