The authorities of Honduras explained in detail on the 10th of this month of December the route of the container in which more than nine thousand packages of drugs and that they added up to a total of 9.8 tons of cocaine.
In an official document and in a video, the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy of Honduras (Dgmm) detail that the boat“with the Liberian flag, entered Puerto Cortez on the 29th of November, after setting sail from the port city of Santo Tomás de Castilla, Guatemalawhere it was “loaded”.
He container number HLBU9354083, “which arrives on November 25 at the port of Santo Tomás de Castilla”, in Guatemala “and enters Puerto Barrios”, of that Central American country, “on November 27, being loaded on November 29, 2024 on the aforementioned Scorpius ship, setting sail on the same date,” the Dgmm explains in a video.
In the official document, the institution makes the same explanation, stating that on “November 25. The container HLBU9354083 arrived empty at the port of Santo Tomás de Castilla, Guatemala“, and four days later, on “November 29: the container “It was loaded onto the ship Scorpius, flying the Liberian flag and with the IMO number 9307279, which set sail to Puerto Caucedo, in the Dominican Republic.”
“It arrived at Puerto Cortez, but was not unloaded, it only made its transit passage through the jurisdictional waters of Honduras“they added in the audiovisual.
Guatemala He said it was loaded in the DR
It is remembered that the president of GuatemalaBernardo Arévalo, said on the 11th of this month that it had become “clear” that the drug did not leave his country, and “that the pollution (from container) took place in the Dominican Republic”.
Hondurasalso separated that nation from the shipment, the largest confiscated in Dominican history.
What the DR has reported
When accounting for the seizurethe National Directorate of Control of Drugs (DNCD), from the Dominican Republic, found the largest cache it has ever occupied after “a visual survey of the entire area” in the Caucedo port, and “two open containers were detected, one empty and the other loaded with bananas, immediately alerting all security agencies”.
And they immediately proceeded to carry out the site inspection, “managing to detect in both containers a total of 320 bags containing inside 9,587 packages of a substance that is presumed to be cocainewith an estimated value of 250 million dollars.” The same, after being analyzed, gave a weight of 9.8 tons of cocaine.
“The first research They realize that the container loaded with bananas, arrived in the country from Guatemalaand according to what has been established several individuals, until now unknown, were trying to transfer the stash to another container that would be embarked on a ship bound for Belgium,” the statement added.
Honduras corroborated this last part, reporting that, according to their monitoring platforms, “in Puerto Caucedo, the container would be transshipped to continue towards its final destination: port terminal of Antwerp, Belgium.”
The last thing they said authorities Dominican Republic is that they remain in permanent contact with several countries that have shared data for the investigation in progress on the 9,889 kilos of cocaine.
They maintained that the information they have requested is within the framework of international legal cooperation and bilateral agreements maintained by the Dominican Republic.
