During the investigation, three cocaine hydrochloride finds were in the same way made, two in Ecuador and one in Tumaco, Nariño department, which completed more than three tons.
As part of its Institutional Policy of Transparency and Zero Tolerance against Corruption, the National Navy carried out a rigorous internal investigation that led to the dismantling of a transnational organization at the service of drug trafficking, which operates of the Nariño Pacific region to Central America and the United States.
As a result of these operations carried out by the National Navy in coordination with the Criminal Investigation Directorate of the National Police and interagency with the Attorney General's Office and INTERPOL, it was possible the materialization of six current arrest warrants against members of this network, specialized in drug trafficking. Three of those individuals are active members of the Institution, who must face charges of trafficking, manufacture or carrying of narcotics, association to commit aggravated crimes and bribery. These operations correspond to individual behaviors, which differ from the institutional principles and values, so, the National Navy rejects any act that violates the Constitution and the law.
During the investigative process, it was established that this network transported cocaine across the Pacific Sea, bound for Central America and the United States, using Go Fast speedboats that sailed from Tumaco, Nariño department. The organization was led by two drug traffickers, who maintained criminal alliances with the Western Bloc Alfonso Cano of the FARC dissidents who commit crimes in the region.
Through these arrests, the logistical and military operations capacity of transnational crime in the Nariño Pacific is neutralized and directly impacted, representing a serious damage to the criminal financing and intelligence systems of this felony in this strategic region of the country; in the same way this operation prevent the entry of approximately 85 million dollars into the finances of criminal organizations.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
