With this operation, drug trafficking organizations lose more than 40 million dollars.
With the operation against drug trafficking organizations in the Caribbean region, the Colombian Navy, in coordination with the Technical Investigation Unit –CTI – of the Attorney General's Office, announced the finding of 1,204 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that were hidden in a vehicle in the city of Cartagena, Bolívar.
This result took place after receiving information about the displacement of a suspected heavy cargo vehicle that had apparently transported a shipment of narcotic substances from the city of Medellin to Cartagena.
Immediately, troops of the Navy Infantry Battalion No.12 accompanied by crewmen of the Cartagena Coast Guard Station and in coordination with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps), proceeded to carry out the search procedures in a port area of Cartagena, and find the van-type vehicle that was abandoned.
When carrying out the respective inspection of the vehicle, 40 sacks with 1,200 rectangular packages were found by troops. After the Approved Preliminary Identification Tests 1,204 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride were confirmed to be in the packages. No arrests occurred during the proceedings.
This cargo would be sent from the port of Cartagena to Rotterdam (Holland) and would have a cost in the international illegal market of more than 40 million dollars, a figure that, thanks to the decisive operation of the Colombian Navy and the Prosecutor's Office, will no longer enter the finances of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo. In the same way, more than three million doses of cocaine were stopped being marketed and distributed on the streets of the world.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
