A woman has been fined more than £2,000 for trying to smuggle Chinese medicines which contained ground rhinoceros horn and other banned animal products, the Border Force said.

Sun Liu, 51, was stopped at Cardiff Airport as she arrived on a flight from Beijing via Amsterdam in July 2012.

Three boxes contained ground rhinoceros horn and one box had eight portions of a medicine containing bear bile.

Two other boxes contained the plant extract shenrong weisheng wan.

All of the items are banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Source: BBC News

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