Huambo - The National Police this week in Huambo province dismantled a criminal network dedicated to committing several crimes, with the detention of two Vietnamese nationals, ANGOP reported Friday.
The spokesman of the local branch of the Ministry of the Interior, Martinho Kavita Satito, said that the alleged criminals were arrested in the Sao Joao neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Huambo city, following a micro-operation carried out in the area.
The senior national police officer also said that other investigations were underway to determine other presumed members of this network.
He said that, at the time of the arrest, two firearms, 39 pieces of ivory cuttings, 70 porcupine ears, a jaguar skin, the same number of ivory cutting machines, a skull and 100 pieces of animal skin had been taken from them.
Among the means seized from the Vietnamese are also teeth of unspecified animals, 700 grams of narcotic drug of the liamba type, a kit for detection and evaluation of diamonds and four stones of this mineral, four passports and nine notebooks.
