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On July 14, 2018 on their return from a big hunting expedition, Bokibaya Destin and his three mates known as Alain, Jules and Sebastien, all fugitives, were caught by rangers in the Bomassa area with two ivory tusks cut in six pieces and three war weapons type PMAK. The latter used their weapons against rangers in an attempt to escape.

In February 2017, Bossoto Césarine was visited by one known as Dior who is the son of her elder sister living at Mobako camp, who came to deposit a bag at around 8:00 pm that she didn’t know the content.

On May 11, 2014 a joint patrol funded by WWF and organized by the gendarmerie of Sembe. The patrol team went to Lopo village where the inhabitants informed them that Debe Ludovic was in possession of a PMK war weapon that he used to carry big hunting at the border area between Congo and Gabon.

Dissaka Samuel was already prosecuted for similar facts. For four years he was regularly practising big hunting in the forest using the war weapon type PMAK of one known as Samba Cyriaque.

Following information from an informer, agents of the NGO Conservation Justice were alerted that a state-of-the-art ivory transaction was to take place in one of the rooms of the PLAZA studio motel.

In August 2020, ADJI Thibault a student at the Faculty of Law in Brazzaville purchased a PMAK war weapon from an element of Congolese Armed Forces named NABODEBE Cyrile for the sum of XAF 100,000 (one hundred thousand) to carry a big hunting expedition at Ngbala.

In 2009, the accused were carrying out a hunting expedition during which they killed fully protected species inside the Nouabale-Ndoki national park.

in 2019, ADORO CHUKWIDI, a Nigerien national, reportedly received two ivory tusks from his brother, who was finally returning to the country, each weighing 0.5 kg. Eager to get rid of it, he approached the Nigerian-born AGHAEZE CHUKWU to help him find a buyer.

In March 2011, Yolah Fred Benjamin killed one elephant with his caliber 12 rifle during a hunting expedition. He cut the trunk and removed the two ivory tusks. He then contacted Mouity Dissienga to look for a buyer. Dissienga took an appointed with a middleman who was to introduce them to a buyer at hotel Louis on the same day in the afternoon.

While he was an employee in a logging concession located at Mandji-Ndolou, Yeno Matamba discovered ivory tusks that he decided to keep. Following the advice of his uncle who offered to help him, Yeno went to Libreville to sell the products at XAF800,000.