Those arrested would be accused of participating in the shipment of more than seven tons of cocaine hydrochloride to different parts of America and Europe.
Marine Infantry units of the Colombian Navy, in coordination with officials of the Technical Investigation Corps - CTI of the Attorney General's Office, arrested nine individuals who would be accused of belonging to an international drug trafficking network, which specialized in the shipment of narcotics by polluting cargo ships for maritime transport in the main ports of Colombia.
The operation, which was carried out simultaneously in Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Santa Marta, was made possible thanks to a wide deployment of technical and human resources, and a thorough investigation that, for seven years, collected evidentiary elements, with which the judicial authority issued arrest warrants for the alleged crime of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics, established in article 376 of the Colombian Criminal Code.
According to the investigations, this organization apparently worked subordinately to the Organized Gang Los Pachenca and concentrated its criminal activities in the ports of Buenaventura - Valle del Cauca, Santa Marta - Magdalena and in the department of La Guajira.
In the same way, it is presumed that they would apparently be responsible for sending at least seven tons of cocaine to different regions of the world by 2018 and 2024, through the modality of underwater pollution of high-class ships (through the use of divers and parasite-type operations), and in criminal coordination with drug trafficking organizations in countries such as Chile, Croatia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
This result is a powerful blow to the criminal structures at the service of the international narcotics trafficking that commits crimes in Colombia and in the different countries to which the narcotics were sent, disabling illegal routes for the transport of illicit substances, reducing their logistical and military operations capacity and fragmenting transnational criminal networks.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
