Customs in the dark over smuggling of elephant tusk


KOTA KINABALU: State Customs is doubtful that a 2.7kg elephant tusk seized in Indonesia was smuggled through its checks at the passenger ferry terminal in Tawau.

“Our officers would have noticed the ivory if it passed through our checkpoint in Tawau,” Sabah Customs and Excise Department director Datuk Janathan Kandok said.

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