This would be a new modality in which organizations serving drug trafficking camouflage cocaine to prevent being discovered by the authorities.
Thanks to the expertise of military in the middle of the thick rainforest of the department of Chocó they found the drug that would belong to the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo and that would cost more than 52 million dollars.
In less than a week in the Pacific Chocó lands units attached to the Joint Task Force Titan, have found 2.4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride.
In the midst of the permanent operation carried out by the Colombian Military Forces against illicit activities, especially against the transnational crime of drug trafficking, Colombian Navy units attached to the Joint Task Force Titan, made an unprecedented finding in the middle of the thick rainforest of the Colombian North Pacific, near the village Guarín, rural area of the municipality of Jurado - department of Chocó.
It is about the finding of 1.5 tons of cocaine hydrochloride that had been hidden inside a ceiba tree more than 5 meters long. This wooden specimen was allegedly manipulated by members of the Clan del Golfo, alleged owners of the drug, who drilled it to prevent being discovered by the authorities.
The tree that was near an estuary was being used as an illegal hiding place to later transport the illicit substance on boats bound for Central America and North America.
For this operation that culminated in the finding of the drug would cost in more than 52 million dollars, the troops of the Navy Infantry Battalion No.23 of the Colombian Navy, added to the Joint Task Force Titan, had to climb more than five meters to reach the top of the tree and descend inside in a complex maneuver to extract the 56 sacks where the illicit substance was.
After a complex transfer in which they had to cross the thick rainforest and estuaries, finally the members of the Military Forces of the Colombian Navy transported the material by sea to the municipality of Bahía Solano, where personnel of the Technical Investigation Corps – CTI, of the Attorney General's Office, conducted the Approved Preliminary Identification Test - PIPH, which left a positive result for 1,566.6 kilograms of Cocaine Hydrochloride.
By means of this finding it was possible to hit the finances of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo, to whom, according to intelligence information, the drugs would belong.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
