article_snippet.sent: The 511 elephant tusks, worth $6million (£4m), which were bound for Laos, were seized upon arrival Saturday at a major port in Chonburi province in eastern Thailand.
article_snippet.sent: second-biggest bust came after customs officials received a tip-off in Laos and Thailand and tracked the containers from Kenya, Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sujjapongse revealed.
article_snippet.sent: Thai customs officers inspect more than 500 elephant tusks at the Customs Bureau in Bangkok after Thai customs officers were found hidden in stacks of tea leaves on a ship from Kenya Kenya .
article_snippet.sent: The 511 elephant tusks worth $6million (£4m), bound for Laos, were seized upon arrival on Saturday at a major port in Chonburi province in eastern Thailand Chonburi province in eastern Thailand eastern Thailand .
article_snippet.sent: second-biggest bust came one week after Thai customs officials seized four tons of tusks that were smuggled from Congo and also destined for Laos in what they said was the nation's biggest ever seizure.
article_snippet.sent: Somchai said more than 500 elephant tusks at the Customs Bureau in Bangkok were 'more beautiful and complete than the previous lot' and that more than 500 elephant tusks at the Customs Bureau in Bangkok would likely have been distributed to buyers in China, Vietnam and Thailand had the shipment reached Laos.
article_snippet.sent: Customs officials said the tusks were 'more beautiful and complete than the previous lot' and that Customs officials would likely have been distributed to buyers in China, Vietnam and Thailand Vietnam and Thailand had the shipment reached Laos . '
article_snippet.sent: The bust came one week after Thai customs officials seized four tons of tusks that were smuggled from Congo and also destined for Laos in what they said was the nation's biggest seizure .
highlights_snippet.sent: Last week, Thailand seized four tons of tusks smuggled from Congo .