The result occurred thanks to valuable information and the timely response of Costa Rican Drug Control police units.
In an international operation conducted by authorities from Colombia, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom, it was possible to find 2.4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride hidden in a Panamanian - flagged merchant ship, docked in the Port of Moin-Costa Rica.
With intelligence information, it was possible to identify a drug trafficking structure that allegedly commits crimes in the subregion of the Gulf of Urabá, which contaminated a container on board a boat in Urabá, where it would be transported to Costa Rica.
Once in the Port of Moín, Costa Rican Drug Control Police personnel inspected the identified container, finding 97 sports bags, which stored inside 2425 rectangular packages of illicit substances.
The material was put into custody of the judicial authorities, who conducted the approved preliminary identification test –PIPH -, leaving positive result for 2420 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which is estimated to cost more than 91 million dollars in the US illegal markets.
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
