00:01Sabah Wildlife officials seized an elephant tusk, ten live pangolins and nine kilograms
00:08of pangolin scales, and arrested a suspect during Ops Kazana near a plantation in Kampung
00:14Paris 3 Kinabatangan on Friday night.
00:18A 27-year-old Filipino man was found with the items.
00:22Sabah Wildlife Department Director Mohammad Sofyan Abu Bakar said the integrated operation
00:28carried out with the General Operations Force is still investigating whether the tusk is
00:34linked to a butchered elephant found in a Tongod Forest Reserve last month.
00:39Based on initial investigations, the suspect claimed he had purchased the tusk from someone
00:45else, so authorities cannot yet confirm whether it came from the butchered elephant.
00:50The seized items and the suspect will be investigated under the Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997.
00:59A 24-year-old Filipino man is associated with the
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