The illegal merchandise would cost more than 50 million dollars in the international illegal market.
Through this result, the distribution of more than three million doses of narcotics on the streets of the world was prevented.
As part of comprehensive maritime control and security operations, the Colombian Navy found in adjacent waters of the department of Valle del Cauca, a ship that had wrecked when, apparently, its crew members were transporting a ton and a half of cocaine hydrochloride to Central America.
A Rapid Reaction Unit of the Coast Guard Station of Tumaco, detected the ship and went to the place to verify the situation. Upon arriving at the area, military personnel found three individuals in the water, 49 sacks of different shapes and sizes, as well as several fuel barrels. Immediately, the Colombian sailors proceeded to bring the three individuals and the cargo to safety, to later transfer them to the dock of the Buenaventura Coast Guard Station in the department of Valle del Cauca.
At the military installations, the staff of the Technical Investigation Corps - CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Attorney General's Office, carried out the Approved Preliminary Identification Test – PIPH, determining that it was 1,484 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, would cost more than 50 million dollars on the international illegal market.
In 2024, the Naval Institution has found more than 266 tons of cocaine hydrochloride in the Colombian Pacific, preventing about nine billion dollars from entering drug trafficking organizations.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
