Africa: How Traffickers Got Away With the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History
[ad_1] Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood from Madagascar, the logs sit in limbo in a Singapore port. On 11 March, 2014, the MV Oriental Pride, a 100-metre-long, roughly 5,000-ton, Kelly green cargo ship, arrived in the port of Jurong, Singapore, where it was met by agents with Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority. Aboard, the agents discovered an amazing haul: some 30,000 Madagascar rosewood […]