The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, assured that the authorities had no information that a plane with 440 kilos of cocaine would arrive in the country, coming from Paraguay, where it was caught in the last few hours.
“From the General Directorate of Drugs they had not registered the possibility that a shipment of this type could come,” said the Security chief when asked at a press conference.
He added that his portfolio is in contact with the Paraguayan intelligence services: “We are very attentive,” he said, adding that, when he was visiting Paraguay, the director of the Anti-Drug Trafficking Secretariat told him that “Paraguay had 390 clandestine plane trips.”
Said country, the hierarch would have asserted, “is subject to a really very important presence of drug traffickers.”
waiting for information
Heber explained that Uruguay is “waiting” for the results of the investigation into this plane, which, it is presumed, was planning to travel to Uruguay.
“We are waiting for the investigation. The first news we have, they said they were coming to a destination, we still have not confirmed it (…) there is no national operation that was aware of the possible presence of this plane, “he continued. “(We are going to) delve into that information in such a way as to know if there are other trips that we may not have registered and that are throwing drugs out there.”
