"Interpol has announced
that it arrested nearly 200 people in a wide-ranging international
operation against illegal logging and the trafficking of timber.
Interpol says the illegal logging trade could be worth up to $100bn world-wide.
It has also been linked to a rise in murders and corruption, as criminal groups move into remote forest areas.
Interpol said officials had checked lorries, ships and containers, as well as retailers and individuals, seizing a total of 50,000 cubic metres, or about 2,000 lorry-loads, of illicit timber."...
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