the 511 elephant tusks , worth $ 6million -lrb- £ 4m -rrb- , which were bound for laos , were seized upon arrival saturday at a major port in chonburi province in eastern thailand .
the bust came one week after customs officials received a tip-off in laos and thailand and tracked the containers from kenya , customs department director-general somchai sujjapongse revealed .
they would likely have been distributed to buyers in china , vietnam and thailand had the shipment reached laos .