'Police helped smugglers Thailand'

bangkok - The Thai women were arrested at the airport in Bangkok with 21 rhino horns in their luggage, were escorted by two policemen. Who had turned to steer the ladies with the contraband through customs.

On images from surveillance cameras show how the pair arrives under police escort at customs. The agents do their best to convince the customs officials to let them through without inspection. Customs officers refuse to do so.

At the moment they open the suspicious cases, the women go off and do the customs officers the unprecedented discovery of 50 kilos with a value of more than 4.5 million.

In the two officers under investigation. According to the police at the international airport, the defendants knew an influential police officer. They asked him to accompany two agents so that they would not be singled out for inspection. Such guidance is not unusual for people with high connections in Thailand.

Of the two Thai women, who arrived independently from Vietnam and Cambodia, no trace has yet known.

Rhinos are in danger of extinction by illegal poaching. In 2014 poachers shot just in South Africa 1. 215 rhinos down for their horn, out of a total population of approximately 25 000.

Crushed horn of a rhino is particularly in Vietnam and China because of the popular belief that it has a medicinal effect. It would, inter alia, to work against cancer.