Illegal rosewood seized at border
Police have cracked down on illegal large-scale rosewood smuggling at the Cambodia-Thai border in the district of Malai. In the sting operation Tuesday night, led by Banteay Meanchey prosecutor, Phan Pirom, the authorities have seized around three tons of rosewood, hidden in the truck bed used for transporting milled rice from Vietnam to Thailand, through the Malai district’s Ro Beang border entrance. … Authorities also captured three trucks, which were transporting milled rice, trying to evade import and export taxes into Thailand.
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