With this result, 2.4 million doses were stopped being marketed on the illegal international market.
The Colombian Navy in an operation against drug trafficking in the Gulf of Urabá and in conjunction with troops of the National Army, discovered 974.6 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that were transported aboard a Go Fast type ship in Colombian Caribbean waters.
The decisive operation of a surface unit of the Colombian Navy detected a suspicious ship near Cabo Tiburón. Immediately, a Rapid Reaction Unit of the Urabá Coast Guard Station was deployed to the area, while operational coordination was made with National Army troops to carry out land closure at the mouth of the Acandí River.
Upon noticing the work of the authorities, the crew members of the boat, escaped and left an undetermined amount of sacks at sea, finally escaping in the sector of Playa Soledad, Acandí (Chocó), so the crew members of the Colombian Navy proceeded to search the ship and recover 39 sacks with 975 rectangular packages.
The boat and the packages were transported to the Urabá Coast Guard Station, where the Approved Preliminary Identification Tests - PIPH- by the Technical Investigation Corps -CTI- of the Attorney General's Office were carried out, leaving a positive result for 974.6 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. The material was put into custody of the authorities, no arrests occurred during the operation.
The illegal merchandise that would have left of the shores of the Gulf of Urabá bound for Central America, would reach an approximate cost of 33 million dollars in the international illegal market, a figure that will no longer enter the financial structure of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo.
Source: Press - Navy of Colombia
