The operation was coordinated between Colombia and Ecuador, with support from international agencies.
Within the framework of Ayacucho Plus Joint Strategic Campaign Plan, the National Army developed actions against drug trafficking in Colombia and Ecuador, with the support of judicial authorities, police and international agencies, in which three people accused of being part of a network dedicated to drug trafficking were captured. drug trafficking and illicit financingof criminal structures.
The troops of the Battalion Land Operations No. 20, attached to the Anti-Drug Trafficking Brigade No. 3, They reached the town of Mojarras, municipality of Mercaderes, in the south of Cauca, where alias Borucha, the alleged financial coordinator of the residual group, was captured.
This subject is required by international order for the purposes of extradition for crimes related to drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit a crime.
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Two citizens were captured with him, one of Venezuelan nationality and another Ecuadorian, who would have carried out logistical and liaison activities with international cartels.
More than three kilograms of heroin and a high-end vehicle were seized at the scene.to. Those captured and the seized material were placed at the disposal of the authorities. competent for their respective judicialization.
According to the colonel Edwin Darío Encinales Lota, Chief of Staff Brigade Against Drug Trafficking N3 it is a binational coup against drug trafficking: a military operation that allows captures for the purposes of extradition and affecting the transnational network serving alias Mordisco and with which the financial structure of that organization is weakened. illegal armed group in the department of Cauca.
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Intense military operations continue in the area, due to the presence of the Carlos Patiño front of the dissidents and the ELN, which maintain clashes over territorial control and for the management of the drug trafficking business in this area of the south of the department of Cauca.
Colonel Edwin Darío Encinales Lota indicated that there is information about the presence of more criminal gangs that work in coordination with illegal armed groups in the region.
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