This merchant ship would have as its next destination a port of Peru.
Contamination of merchant ships is one of the methods used by drug trafficking organizations to transport narcotics to different countries.
As part of the comprehensive maritime control and security operations under the Jácome Intervention Plan and the San Buenaventura Strategy, divers of the Colombian Navy conducted an underwater inspection of a merchant ship that was about to set sail, finding that drug trafficking organizations had contaminated it with 241 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
During the underwater inspection of a merchant ship that would sail to Peru, the divers of the Naval Institution found in the sea boxes, seven sealed metal boxes with possible illicit material, for this reason they proceeded to extract them and transfer them to the Coast Guard Station of Buenaventura.
In the military unit, together with the authorities, the metal boxes were opened, finding several packages to which the Preliminary Identification Test was conducted, which left positive result for 241 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
With this blow to drug trafficking organizations that use different means and strategies to try to send drugs to other countries, the Colombian Navy prevented more than eight million dollars from entering its financial structures, which would be product of the commercialization of about 603 thousand doses on the streets of the world.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
