A powerful blow to the finances of Farc dissidents was inflicted during three joint and inter-institutional operations carried out by the Colombian Navy, the National Army and the Attorney General's Office on the Pacific coast of the department of Nariño. The GAO lost more than three million doses of cocaine, a complex for the production of narcotics was destroyed and a semi-submarine-type naval device was intercepted. It is estimated that with this result, outlaw organizations were harmed by approximately US$ 40 million.
This operation against illicit drugs trafficking, carried out by the Colombian Navy, led to the finding and neutralization of a complex for the production of coca base paste and crystallization of cocaine hydrochloride, in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, in the department of Nariño, which also prevented damages in the natural resources of this protected area.
Inside the illegal complex, belonging to the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Franco Benavides Mobile Column, 847 kilograms of narcotics, 825 kilograms of solid precursors and 2,232 gallons of liquid precursors were found by troops, including different highly polluting chemical substances according to the rigorous tests carried out by the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps).
In the course of subsequent operations, troops found a semi-submarine, apparently belonging to the Residual Organized Armed Group Alfonso Cano Western Bloc, with the capacity to transport more than two tons of narcotics. The naval device found in an area of estuaries on the Nariño Coast was ready to be loaded with narcotics and would be used by the criminal organization for trafficking them to other countries in the region.
Complementing the operation, in surveillance, control, and maritime security operations, conducted by Units of the Naval Force of the Pacific, it was possible to intercept a go fast boat 62 nautical miles from Parque Nacional Natural Sanquianga, inside troops found 386 kilograms of cocaine, 1 045 gallons of fuel and communications equipment, in the same way three individuals, including one foreign citizen, were captured.
The individuals and the cargo found were taken to the Tumaco Coast Guard Station, where officials of the Prosecutor's Office's CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) conducted the approved preliminary identification test, leaving a positive result for cocaine hydrochloride.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
