This site would be part of the illegal finance subsystem of the so-called Comandos de Frontera and would have the capacity to produce more than five tons of drugs per month.
Within the framework of operations against illegal finances derived from drug trafficking, framed in the Ayacucho Joint Strategic Campaign Plan -Tiempo 2 - the Military Forces found what would be the largest drug production megalaboratory in recent times in the department of Putumayo.
The finding took place in the village of Bajo Santa Helena, rural area of Puerto Asís, Putumayo. Troops of the 27th Brigade of the Sixth Division of Colombian National Army arrived at the place, who, with military intelligence information, and thanks to unmanned aircraft overflights carried out in the area, found the point where the criminals were carrying out this illegal activity.
The cocaine hydrochloride production laboratory had eight substructures in which members of the Military Forces found about 5,000 gallons of liquid supplies and a thousand kilos of solid supplies. They in the same way found more than 200 kilograms of drugs ready to be shipped via the established routes to Central America.
In one of the structures, troops found about 800 gallons of drugs in process, from which the individuals would obtain at least 700 kilos of the drug. They in the same way found two distillation towers to distill fuel (necessary for the production of narcotics), microwave ovens, plastic barrels, materials and tools used by criminals for production. In addition, they found a bedroom and a kitchen with the capacity to accommodate and feed more than 15 people.
According to intelligence information, and due to the size of the structure, in this place the criminals of the so-called Comandos de Frontera produced about five tons of drugs per month. As it has been established, the drug was taken out by drug trafficking routes to the Nariño Pacific, and of there, embarked on Go Fast boats and semi-submarines bound for Central and North America.
This powerful result by the military operation becomes the largest and most significant damage in recent years against the illegal finances derived from drug trafficking to the so-called Comandos de Frontera. It is estimated that there are about 18 billion pesos per month that this residual organized group will stop receiving due to the neutralization of this place.
Source: Strategic Communications General Command of the military forces
