Customs investigates shipment of 75 kilos of cocaine that was going to enter Uruguay

The Paraguayan truck was carrying an empty container, the Sanducero newspaper El Telégrafo reported, but it was detained in the neighboring country. The Uruguayan authorities were notified of the case and an investigation is already underwayconfirmed to The Observer the director of Customs, Jaime Borgiani.

According to the aforementioned media, Argentine Customs personnel considered that the transport coincided with the risk profile established in the action protocol, for which reason an inspection was carried out using a scanner. In the images they could see that the truck floor had a change in the structure; They carried out a physical check of the vehicle and detected that, from the base, there were welded spaces that did not correspond to the original structure.

After perforating the floor of the truck, the presence of 75 tightly packed packages that were covered with coal dust. The agents did the corresponding analyzes and determined that it was cocaine hydrochloride.