5 traffickers arrested with 53 kg of pangolin scales

5 traffickers arrested with 53 kg of pangolin scales and a hippo tooth. They were arrested in a complex operation that took much patience and initiatives by the arresting team. Some of the scales are of the rarer giant pangolin. The criminals were also caught trafficking two minerals - red cinnabar (mercury sulphide) and white cinnabar (mercury sulphate), the second being extremely lucrative for trafficking and toxic even for mere inhaling.