Cyanide Importer Arrested

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Mining Director Busted for Elephant Poisonings

In this week’s crime blotter, getting to the bottom of gruesome elephant killings in Zimbabwe.

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Elephants cross the road in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, where more than 300 elephants were poisoned between 2013 and 2014.


PHOTOGRAPH BY TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Adam Cruise
PUBLISHED SAT FEB 27 07:00:00 EST 2016

The managing director of a Zimbabwe mining More than 300 animals died this way for their ivory in Hwange National Park between 2013 and 2014, and 100 more across the country last year. The effects of cyanide on elephants that drink water or eat food laced with it are horrific.

“But who’s using it? And where does it come from?” asked Oscar Nkala in a report here last year.

Dilute sodium cyanide solution is used to dissolve and separate gold or silver from ore.


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According to the special investigations unit of Nehanda Radio, based in Bulawayo, the home of Nyakudya’s mining company, Nyakudya is wanted in connection with “the manner in which he dealt with cyanide that was used during the chemical poaching in Zimbabwe since 2013.” Nyakudya is alleged to have imported cyanide from South Africa without proper documents.

The radio station said that an employee of Nyakudya’s company did not have a permit to handle and transport cyanide. The employee, who wishes to remain unnamed for fear of his life, said that each time a cyanide consignment was delivered, it was offloaded at night. Another employee, also anonymous, said that no paperwork existed showing how and where the chemical was going.


The source claimed that four tons was sold to How Gold Mine, near Bulawayo, but he said, “To my surprise, my friends who were truck drivers told me some cyanide was transported to Hwange.” The only mining done in the Hwange area is for coal, which doesn’t use cyanide.

Nyakudya is being held in jail in Bulawayo, awaiting an appearance in court next week.
 
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Great news that they got this guy!
 
I also had read this earlier today.

As for the Zimbabwe courts, it is any guess as to what will happen.

The money that changes hands before it comes to court will be telling.
 
Not to be offensive, but I hope they get the full force of the law brought upon them, capital punishment or just prison time. Glad they were caught, regardless what the courts decide.
 
Good that someone gas been arrested. Now the question will someone else just step up and do the killing for the illegal trade!
 
Glad one person is off the street for now, and the poison as well!
 

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