Five excavators, two diver-type dredgers that were neutralized by the authorities, and had a monthly production of 15 kilos of gold, valued at 2,250 million pesos. A coca paste base laboratory and a coca bush cultivation were in the same way found in the place, with an approximate cost of 100,000,000 million pesos.
Troops of the Infantry Battalion No. 22 Batalla de Ayacucho, together with the Police Intelligence Section, CTI, Corpocaldas, Military Intelligence Battalion, Brigade Against the Illicit Extraction of Mining deposits and the Air Combat Command, carried out an operation against the crime of illicit exploitation of mining deposits in the department of Caldas.
In the municipality of Samaná, in the village of Cristales, where the Cauca River tributary is, a material was found that was used for this crime against the environment. 5 excavators, 2 diver-type dredgers, 3,610 gallons of liquid supplies to carry out the illegal activity, 2 cummins engines, 4 motor pumps, 2 mechanics workshops with various tools, 3 mineral classifiers, 5 communication radios, metal detectors, power generators, 16 kilometers of hoses of various calibers, 25 60-kilo gas cylinders, 10 pulleys, among others were found by troops at the place.
The material found and disabled would cost 3,000 million pesos and led them to obtain a monthly production of 15 kilos of gold equivalent to approximately 2,200 million pesos.
On the other hand, during the search to the place, the troops also found a coca base paste production laboratory, with the capacity to produce 60,000,000 pesos per month of PBC, to then move it to the department of Antioquia to a cocaine hydrochloride cocaine laboratory, where later, it would be marketed in the micrographic.
In the same way, 200 gallons of liquid supplies and a coca bush plantation of 5,000 square meters were found by troops, where 500 coca plants were eradicated, which would have cost 50,000,000 pesos.
Source: Press - Fifth Division
