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Hawks bust rhino trafficking syndicate linked to 964 horns
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) has cracked a transnational wildlife trafficking syndicate at the centre of one of South Africa’s biggest rhino horns fraud schemes, following a seven-year investigation. Six suspects — five men aged 49 to 84 and a 60-year-old woman — handed themselves over to the Hawks’ wildlife trafficking section…