In a joint operation with the Colombian Navy, the Colombian Air Force, and interinstitutional with the Attorney General's Office, a cocaine megalaboratory for the production of the narcotic was found.
In an operation carried out by troops of the Aviation Division of Air Assault, in support of the Third Division of the National Army, a laboratory used for the production of cocaine hydrochloride, which was in the village El Cidral, municipality of El Tambo in the department of Nariño, was neutralized.
By air assault, soldiers of the Command against drug Trafficking and Transnational Threats infiltrated up to the point said by military intelligence, there accompanied by of the Technical Body of Research were found by troops 2206 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 600 kilograms of coca base paste, and 625 kg of solid supplies and 4355 gallons of liquid precursors, which belong to the militia company Jaime Toño Obando of the organized armed group, GAO, ELN.
No arrests were made at the scene and all the material found was put into custody of the authority to conduct their respective process of prosecution and subsequent destruction.
This interception operation hits this illegal group by more than 13,000 million pesos, a result that complements a line of decisive operations carried out by this elite unit, which in less than 12 days already adds approximately 10 tons of cocaine hydrochloride confiscated.
