Colombia
Eight tons of cocaine in Colombia discovered
It is an absolute record of the Fund, the market value is for the equivalent of 210 million euros. Police officers seized the substance on a Site of which normally only healthy food.
Colombia’s defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas (m) by officials of the drug Fund inform
The drug had been discovered in an underground hideout on a banana plantation in the North-Western Department of Antioquia, said the defense Ministry in the capital, Bogota. Three Suspects had been detained. President Juan Manuel Santos congratulated the soldiers and police on Twitter for the most drug references of the history of the South American country.
Cocaine is supposed to have heard of former paramilitaries
The cocaine with a market value equivalent to 210 million euros belong to the crime syndicate “Los Urabeños”. The group is regarded as the most powerful criminal organization in Colombia and is recruited mainly from former fighters of the right-wing paramilitaries. She is involved in numerous murders and expulsions. The gang intended to smuggle a month between eight and ten tons of cocaine through Central America and Mexico towards the USA and at least 60 percent of the drug trade in the Colombian Pacific region as a control. In addition, the group is involved in illegal mining and extortion.
“This is a hard blow to the finances of the Urabeños and the drug trade in General”, said defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas. Inserts such as this strengthened the trust in the authorities. The seized cocaine should have heard the Deputy chief of the “Urabeños”, Roberto Vargas, alias Gavilán,. The government has announced a bounty of 500 million Pesos (of 148,000 euros) on him. To the use also a special unit was involved, the power specifically to hunt the leader of the “Urabeños”. A similar group had brought the beginning of the 1990s, the powerful drug dealer Pablo Escobar.
440 Tons Of Annual Production
Colombia is the largest cocaine producer in the world, followed by Peru and Bolivia. Are produced each year in Colombia approximately 440 tons of this drug. In the past year, the authorities were able to record a total of 252 tons of hardware, in this already over 90 tons.
sti/djo (dpa, rtr)