MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban authorities dismantled a drug trafficking group that was organized from abroad and seized more than 300 kilograms of marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. Narcotics entered the Island both by air and by sea.
According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), cited by the official cubadebate this Sunday and shared in the Cuban Television, 26 people involved in trafficking were arrested.
The investigation began after the detection by the Border Guard Troops of 114.33 kilograms of marijuana in the Bahía Honda municipality, in the province of Artemisa, said Lieutenant Colonel Rigoberto Cordovés.
“It was also learned that the air channel used were people who acted as drug mules or couriers, who introduced narcotics into household appliances, using non-commercial cargo for the first time,” added the official.
He also indicated that means of transportation such as speedboats, cars, electric motorcycles, and a firearm were confiscated.
According to the official media, together with the Customs the introduction of cocaine into batteries of electric motorcycles that came in the name of people who were in charge of receiving this merchandise, extracting it and trading it was verified.
The text highlights that “Cuba has reiterated on numerous occasions its policy of zero tolerance towards narcotics.”
In the middle of last year, the Ministry of the Interior reported on the “persistence in attempts to introduce drugs through the country’s air and sea borders, mostly to try to sell them.”
Likewise, it indicated that only in the first semester of 2022, 11 cases of drug trafficking attempts were detected on the Island, a figure that equaled the number reached in 2021.
