It is the ninth semi-submarine found by the Colombian Navy in the Pacific during 2021, and the first on Colombian Pacific coasts.
This finding prevents more than 13 million dollars from entering the illegal organizations in the service of drug trafficking.
These naval devices have a manufacturing cost of 500 thousand or 1 million dollars and can carry up to 8 tons of narcotics.
Units of the Colombian Navy in a joint operation with the National Army, the Colombian Air Force and inter-agency with the Attorney General's Office, were able on the weekend to find a shipment of cocaine hydrochloride that was on board a semi-submarine in the waters of the Micay River, a border area common to the Departments of Valle del Cauca and Cauca.
Military intelligence led the Colombian Navy and National Army units to find the semi-submarine- that was in its final phase of construction and had already been loaded with cocaine hydrochloride.
According to the investigations, this illegal cargo would belong to criminal organizations in the service of international narcotrafficking and to the Rafel Aguilera structure 30 of the residual organized armed group, GAO-r, who were concentrating the illicit drug to later transfer it to the shores of Mexico.
The boat was taken to the Pacific Maritime signaling dock, in Buenaventura, to be inspected; during the review 402 packages distributed in 14 bags with a narcotic substance were found by troops; the initial approved preliminary test (PIPH) gives positive result for 402 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
This finding prevented more than one million people, especially young people, from having access to a dose of cocaine. This cargo would have an approximate cost in the International illegal market of 13 million 500 thousand dollars. The material will be put into custody of the authorities
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
