The drug would apparently belong to the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Structure 48, Finanzas de la frontera Group.
In the course of inter-institutional military operations, framed in the Tormenta strategy, troops of the National Army and the Prosecutor's Office, through a search warrant, found an illegal hideout with coca paste base in a house in the municipality of Ipiales; this substance belonged to the GAO residual 48, Finanzas de la Frontera Group that is under the command of alias El Caqueteño.
According to the first information, this hallucinogen would be being packaged in tuna cans in Ecuador, with the aim of being transported from the municipality of Ipiales to the city of Cartagena, where they would carry out its commercialization abroad.
The narcotic would cost more than 3,000 million pesos, and the illegal profits obtained from its commercialization would be used to finance the illicit activities of this residual organized armed group, mainly in strengthening its criminal arm through the purchase of war material, with the aim of conducting terrorist operations against the Military Forces and in turn hitting the security of civilians.
The material was put into custody of the competent authorities to carry out their respective prosecution process.
Source: press - Twenty-Third Brigade of the National Army
