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		</div><p>Thai authorities have seized 422 elephant tusk pieces and arrested a Gambian man suspected of smuggling the ivory into Bangkok&#8217;s main airport.</p>
<p>The tusks were hidden in a shipment listed as unprocessed gemstones, customs department director-general Kulit Sombatsiri said.</p>
<p>He said the parcel was examined because items from Malawi are regarded as high-risk for smuggled goods, and an ivory seizure last year had involved tusks from Mozambique which were similarly concealed.</p>
<p>Mr Kulit said the seizure of 33kg (726lbs) of smuggled ivory worth around £390,000 was the first in Thailand this year.</p>
<p>Thai customs officials last year confiscated more than 1,200 kilograms (2,640lbs) of ivory in nine separate cases.</p>
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