Guatemala remains silent on complaint in cocaine case

The Dominican authorities have remained silent in the face of the complaint by the president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, who said that the container seized last week at the Caucedo multimodal port with almost 10 tons of cocaine, was loaded in this country.

Although a source revealed to El Nacional that Attorney General’s Office has deployed operations to find those involved in the stash, the crime prosecution body maintains silence about the investigations it is carrying out.

This morning El Nacional made efforts to obtain a reaction to the statement made by the Guatemalan president, but both the National Palace, the National Drug Control Directorate, the Public Ministry and the company have refrained from providing information.

It was also not possible to communicate with DP World Caucedo, a service provider company in the aforementioned port terminal.

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The head of state of Guatemala made the statement when approached by journalists from his country about the origin of the seized drugs.

“It is already clear that it is not true (that the drug left Guatemala), it is already clear that the contamination took place in the Dominican Republic,” Arévalo said.

The cocaine shipment

The cache, the largest seizure in the history of the Dominican Republic, was seized last week at the Multimodal Caucedo port, in Boca Chica, Santo Domingo.

On the 9th of this month, the Attorney General’s Office incinerated the shipment of 9.8 tons of cocaine, confiscated last Friday at the Caucedo Multimodal Port, which weighed more than 9,889 kilograms.

The burning of the drugs takes place in the 16 de Agosto Military Camp, headquarters of the General Command of the Army of the Dominican Republic.

According to Dominican authorities, the drugs have an estimated value of 250 million dollars and are equivalent to the maximum seizure in the history of the Dominican Republic and also in part of the Caribbean region.

In relation to this case, at least ten people linked to the port are being investigated and investigations also continue into the frustrated shipment of drugs to Europe, based on data from the Dominican anti-drug agency.

The Attorney General’s Office, the institution in charge of the investigation, has refused to refer to the issue and the origin of the shipment.