About six tons of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, were incinerated today (5) in one of the furnaces of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), in Volta Redonda, in the south of Rio de Janeiro. The narcotic substances were seized in actions carried out by the two federal security forces in operations against organized crime in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The Federal Highway Police’s Tactical Patrol Group, together with teams from the Federal Police’s Narcotics Repression Department (DRE), left the headquarters of the Federal Police Superintendence in Praça Mauá, where the drug was stored at the disposal of the Federal Court. . The material was packed in a truck belonging to the Military Police’s Special Operations Command (COE).
The drug was taken with a strong police escort to the Presidente Vargas Steelworks of the CSN, in the afternoon. Most of the drug is the result of work dedicated to combating drug trafficking carried out by the two institutions. According to statistics, the PRF is the police that seizes the most drugs in Brazil.
The drugs were incinerated inside an industrial furnace called a torpedo car, a kind of furnace used to transport pig iron in a liquid state for the manufacture of steel.
CSN operates in the entire steel production chain, from the extraction of iron ore to the production and sale of a diversified line of steel products that include flat, coated, galvanized, pre-painted steel, metallic sheets and long steel (rebar and wire rod).
