Image copyright EPA Image caption Boonchai Bach faces up to four years in jail for smuggling parts of protected animals.
Thai police have arrested a man alleged to be the head of Asia's biggest illegal wildlife trading networks.
Boonchai Bach, a 40-year-old Thai of Vietnamese origin, was detained in a town on the border with Laos.
He faces up to four years in jail for smuggling protected animal parts like rhino horns and elephant ivory.
Police said the suspect was "ringleader" of a "major smuggling syndicate" operating over a decade.
He was arrested on Friday over the smuggling of 14 rhino horns worth around $1m (£700,000) from Africa to Thailand.
The Bachs have "long run the international supply chain of illicit wildlife from Asia and Africa to major dealers in Laos, Vietnam and China", Freeland said in statement. »