Cocaine hydrochloride laboratory dismantled in San José del Guaviare
The site would cost more than 7,000 million pesos (about USD 1,761,000); this operations hit the illicit activities of drug trafficking, where apparently a ton and a half of cocaine hydrochloride was produced a month.
The National Army in Guaviare neutralized a cocaine hydrochloride production laboratory in the municipality Las Dunas, municipality of San José del Guaviare.
This result is a hard blow against the problem of drug trafficking in the region, and thus attacks the illegal finances of the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Primera Structura that, under the command of Iván Mordisco, perpetrates the production of narcotics, among other crimes.
This structure was found in the course of the operation carried out in a coordinated and inter-institutional manner with the Police and the Prosecutor's Office; the construction at the time of the finding was abandoned, but troops founds liquid and solid precursors, as well as machinery for the production of cocaine hydrochloride. The elements would have an approximate cost of more than 7,000 million COP.
The illegal laboratory, with a capacity to produce one and a half tons of cocaine hydrochloride monthly, would be strengthening the finances of the residual GAO, for approximately more than 5,000 million pesos in Colombia. It is important to say that this drug, if placed abroad, would increase, for example, in Europe, 47 times its original price, and in Asia, for instance, 79 times more.
These exorbitant figures do not compare with the damage done to public health and the environment by the smuggling and manufacture of this type of narcotics, which not only involves deforesting the area where the laboratory is found, but in the same way the spillage of solid and liquid precursors used for the production.
The case was assigned to the Attorney General's Office, in order to carry out the corresponding investigation to establish the identification and prosecution of those responsible for this criminal action.
Source: press-National Army
