The illegal merchandise apparently belongs to a structure associated with the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Los Pachenca.
In a coordinated operation conducted by the Colombian Navy, the National Police and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP), it was possible to find 298 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride hidden in a cargo of bananas, which was ready to be shipped from the Port of Santa Marta - Magdalena to the city of Antwerp (Belgium).
In recent days, thanks to intelligence information of the Colombian Navy and U.S. agencies, it was possible to identify suspicious movements during fruit packing procedures in the municipalities of Riofrio, Orihueca and La Gran Vía, in the municipality of Bananera Zone in the department of Magdalena.
That is why members of the Military Forces of the Coast Guard Station of Santa Marta and units of the Anti-Narcotics Police were transported to the Port of Santa Marta, where they proceeded to inspect the containers that were in that area. Within one of them they found 300 rectangular packages, equivalent to 298 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which were hidden among 40 boxes of export bananas.
The drug apparently belonged to the Organized Armed Group, GAO, The Pachenca and its value in the illegal market in europe is estimated to reach 18 million dollars, money that, thanks to the work of the Military Forces, will not enter the financial structures of this group that commits crimes in the Caribbean region.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
