(Reuters) The Colombian navy claimed on Wednesday (September 1) it had actually taken 1.8 tonnes of drug being transferred onboard a semi-submersible vessel in the southPacific

The procedure avoided the trafficking and also intake of greater than 44.5 million dosages of drug in surrounding nations, valued at 60 million bucks and also dispersed by the FARC’s unorthodox team “Bloque Occidental Alfonso Cano,” the navy claimed.

The seizure, led by the marines, was executed with knowledge from the Colombian navy.

“The semi-submersible type naval device was intercepted when subjects tried to remove it through an area of estuary located north of the department of Nariño and who, upon noticing the presence of the authorities, threw themselves into the water, fleeing through an area of estuaries, abandoning in that way a speedboat.”

People manning the inconspicuous watercraft delved into the water as quickly as they discovered the authorities and also left right into a mangrove location, deserting the semi-submersible filled with the medicines along with a speedboat that seemed accompanying them, Admiral Orlando Cubillos Chacon claimed.

When the 17-meter-long marine vessel was evaluated, 90 sacks were located including numerous rectangle-shaped bundles, which were after that moved to the dock of the Tumaco Coast Guard Station, where participants of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor’s Office executed the authorized initial recognition examination with a favorable outcome for drug.

This last month, the Colombian Navy obstructed greater than 200 million bucks worth in goods coming from the FARC unorthodox team “Bloque Occidental Alfonso Cano,” with the seizure of greater than 5.8 lots of narcotics, 3 semi-submersible marine tools and also 3 speedboats, along with the damage of research laboratories for the manufacturing of drug.

(Camilo Cohecha, Herbert Villarraga, Reuters)

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