A 63-year-old Namibian businessman was
arrested at the Vioolsdrift boarder post for being in possession of illegal
export of marine products including white mussels.
Lieutenant Sergio Kock said the marine
products found in his possession were at an estimated value of
R14 000.
He appeared in the Springbok
Magistrate Court and received R6 000 or 3
months imprisonment.
Kock said after the police at the boarder
post searched his vehicle they found 11400 mussels and 20 kg of squid in his
vehicle. The suspect was travelling to South Africa on route to Namibia at the time of the
incident.
The police confiscated the goods from his
vehicles and the goods as well as his vehicle were confiscated Kock added.
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