Colombian authorities, supported by the British, captured 12 people who were sending cargoes in various parts of the country. of cocaine to Central America, the United States and Europereported the Attorney General’s Office.
Those arrested, associated with Mexican drug cartels, they had cocaine collection and processing centers in the departments of Valle del Cauca and Chocó.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, to transport the caches, the drug traffickers allegedly contacted the owners of fishing boats or resorted to speedboats, boats that crossed the San Juan Coast, in the Pacific, to the El Venado, Orpúa, Hijua and Bajo Baudó sectors (Chocó) to “then take the substances to international destinations”.
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Similarly, the investigation established that criminals “They recruited people to move, between Colombia and Mexico, the foreign exchange product of drug trafficking”.
The raid allowed the captures in Bogotá, Villavicencio (Meta), Cúcuta (North of Santander), Cali and Palmira (Valle del Cauca) Medellín (Antioquia) and Leticia (Amazonas).
A prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Drug Trafficking charged the detainees with crimes of trafficking, manufacturing or possession of aggravated drugs; and conspiracy to commit a crime for drug trafficking purposes.
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Throughout the investigation of the drug trafficking structure 783 kilos of cocaine and 37,800 dollars were seized from him.
In the four-year term of former President Iván Duque, which ended on August 7, they were eradicated 391,947 hectares of coca, 20,722 laboratories for cocaine processing were destroyed and 2,071 tons of cocaine were seized.
Likewise, during that period they were extradited 717 people, of them 622 Colombians. The rest correspond to citizens of Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela.
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According to the Ministry of Justice 89% of those extradited were for crimes related to drug trafficking.
