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Cairo Airport Customs Halt Attempt To Smuggle Sea Snakes To The UAE
Sea snakes smuggled through Cairo Airport?!
Customs officers at Cairo Airport’s General Administration of Air Exports stopped an attempt to smuggle sea snakes into the UAE.
The Lakes and Fish Resources Protection and Development Agency was shown the seized animals. The agency confirmed that the parcels lacked export approval and a CITES certificate, which governs the trade in species specimens.
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Legal action is being taken
The director-general of the Air Exports and Imports Customs, Ahmed Abdel Mohsen El-Shahawi, issued a customs seizure report and notified authorities.
Legal action is being taken in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 102 of 1983 to implement Egypt’s accession to the CITES convention, Egyptian Environmental Law No. 4 of 1994, and its amendments: Ministerial Resolution No. 1150 of 1999, Customs Law No. 207 of 2020
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