North Korean Diplomats Accused of Smuggling Rhino Horn Out of Africa
North Korean diplomats have been caught smuggling rhinoceros horns from southern Africa in several instances during the past three decades, according to a new report by a civil society organization that exposes transnational organized crime.
“North Korean embassy officials have been implicated in 16 of the 29 cases involving diplomats that we have identified in a variety of sources dating from 1986,” said the report issued in July by the Geneva, Switzerland-based Global Initiative Against Transitional Organized Crime.
“It is likely that many more cases of diplomatic involvement in the illicit trade have gone undetected and unreported,” it said.
The document entitled “Beyond Borders: Crime, Conservation and Criminal Networks in the Illicit Rhino Horn Trade,” is the second part of a two-part investigative report on rhino horn trafficking in southern Africa. It also says North Korean diplomatic missions have been involved in the illicit ivory trade in Africa.
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