Customs officers seize ivory, pangolin scales in sweep

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Customs officers from Guangdong province and Hong Kong have seized 2,070 kilograms of ivory and 8,268 kg of pangolin scales after cracking a major smuggling operation in mid January.

"It is the largest smuggling case involving pangolin scales that Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department has cracked so far," Wong Lai-yung, divisional commander of Special Investigation Division 1 with Syndicate Crimes Investigation Bureau of Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, told a news conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Friday.