According to General Richard Ravalomanana, the National State Police’s leading officer, the concerned ship’s captain is a Chinese national. Where this cargo of rosewood logs was basically supposed to be shipped to remains unknown for the time being, but the investigation has just started and will keep going on over the next coming weeks. In spite of a very international reaction to this matter of fact, rosewood smuggle has been reaching unprecedented extents during the four years old political crisis in Madagascar. Senior ruling power officials and high ranking army and state police officers happen to be widely regarded as the masterminds of this rosewood trafficking.