Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade by Rademeyer Julian

Author:Rademeyer, Julian [Rademeyer, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: A terrifying true story of greed, corruption, depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise…
ISBN: 9781770223356
Publisher: Random House Struik
Published: 2012-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Either in August or September 2010, Pace secured the first rhinos to be slaughtered. Chai paid over R1 million in cash for them. As before, the money was drawn from ATM machines at Emperors Palace. Chai felt safe there. By Johnny’s reckoning, it would have taken more than 500 withdrawals of R2 000 each – the withdrawal limit of the machines – to get the cash together.

Chai made sure there was a record of the transaction. ‘While we were paying Juan,’ Johnny said in his statement to O’Sullivan, ‘Chai was busy taking pictures with his camera. I know that Chai carries a Sony laptop around with him. If this computer was obtained, I believe investigators would have everything.’

The photographs show Pace and his wife grinning stupidly over a heap of cash piled up on a pink tablecloth in their home. Their two young sons look on.

Johnny said the rhinos were taken to the Leeuwbosch Game Lodge near Stella in North West province, where they were promptly dispatched in a hunt. Hunting records show that Punpitak and Tool Sriton, another of the Thais arrested alongside Johnny in the 2008 buy-bust, shot two rhinos at Leeuwbosch on 10 September 2010.

This is what Johnny told O’Sullivan:

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