4 Arrested in Japan for Alleged Sale of Ivory as Mammoth Tusks

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Four men and women who are executives of an ivory processing and sales company in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, who were arrested on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act for selling ivory as unregulated mammoth tusks, had listed the tusks on an internet auction site a total of about 4,600 times over a period of about two years, the Metropolitan Police Department's Life Environment Division announced on the 4th.