Updated July 30, 2020, 9:52 a.m. | By AFP

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Kenyan police said Tuesday they had arrested a fugitive who is wanted by the
United States for large-scale trafficking of rhino horn and ivory, as well
as heroin smuggling and money laundering.

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Abubakar Mansur Mohammed Surur, a Kenyan citizen, was arrested after
arriving in the port city of Mombasa on a chartered aircraft from Yemen,
according to a statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.

The statement said he “had been flagged as a wanted person in the United
States for ivory-related offences”.

Surur was indicted in 2019 by the US Drug Enforcement Agency along with
three others for alleged “large-scale trafficking of rhinoceros horns and
elephant ivory and heroin distribution.”

They are accused of “conspiracy to smuggle at least 190 kilogrammes of
rhinoceros horns and at least 10 tonnes of elephant ivory valued at more