This Monday morning, some 42.1 tons of drugs were transferred to the United States to be incinerated under all the processes dictated by our national regulations, as announced by the Minister of Security, Juan Manuel Pino.
He added that the drug would be guarded by a unit of the Judicial Investigation Directorate (DIJ) and a Drug Prosecutor of Panama.
Pino explained that with this procedure, drugs will no longer be burned in the open.
“Panama is a negative carbon country, that is our collaboration. It is much more expensive, it costs approximately $200,000 to burn drugs, the transfer, the payment of men, of equipment, additionally, more than 350 units are used and the damage that there is to the environment,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, Stewart Tuttle, chief of mission of the US Embassy in Panama, said that the least they can do is help with the destruction of this large quantity of drugs that are seized in the country.
“There is a company that specializes in incineration that is going to be witnessed there. I believe that the Attorney General is already in the United States to witness this,” he said.
Tuttle did not rule out that there will be a second chance to move the drug to the United States.
It should be noted that the United States provides a plane from its air force for free to transport the cargo.
