Even though the horns are made of keratin and have no known medicinal properties, some people think the horns cure ailments such as hangovers and cancer.
Police in South Africa have arrested a 46-year-old man accused of attempting to transport rhinoceros horn to China inside boxes of chocolate, police said.Security officers at OR Tambo International Airport near Johannesburg, South Africa, contacted police after scanning the man's packages before shipment. Six pieces of rhino horn were found inside two boxes marked as Ferrero and Cadbury chocolates, police said.
South African police arrested a man accused of trying to transport rhinoceros horn to China in two boxes of chocolate, police say. This photo shows a confiscated rhino horn confiscated at Mana Pools, Zimbabwe.Airport security officers contacted the South African police group division known as the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation , or the Hawks for short. They also contacted agents with the country's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, who came to the scene.
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