This shipment of narcotics is the largest found by the Colombian Navy at sea in the last two years.
Operations carried out by units of the Colombian Navy against drug trafficking in the Nari帽o coast led to the interception of a semi-submarine that was sailing in Colombian waters manned by four individuals carrying four tons of cocaine. With this heavy blow, the largest obtained by the Pacific Naval Force in the last two years, the trafficking and consumption of 10 million doses of the narcotic in countries of the region and the income of about 150 million dollars to the finances of the residual Organized Armed Group Western Bloc Alfonso Cano was prevented.
With information from Naval Intelligence, Units of the Tumaco Coast Guard Station and a Maritime Patrol aircraft of the Naval Aviation conducted the interception operation 68 nautical miles from Tumaco, where the semi-submarine was intercepted; it was manned by four individuals, including a foreigner, who were traveling towards the coasts of Central America.
At the time of inspection of the 15-meter-long submarine, 200 sacks with 4,000 rectangular packages, apparently with illicit substances, were found, so they were taken to the pier of the Tumaco Coast Guard Station, where members of the Technical Corps of Investigation of the Attorney General's Office, carried out the approved preliminary identification test that left positive result for cocaine hydrochloride.
With the interception of the naval device and the finding of the shipment of narcotics, the finances of the Farc鈥檚 dissident group Bloque Occidental Alfonso Cano that commits crimes under the criminal command of alias Allende, in the pacific coast of Nari帽o, are hit hard, reducing its logistical capacity to finance illegal mining activities and terrorist operations against the Military Forces and civilians, with which they seek to generate anxiety, displacement and instability of the territories.
The four individuals were arrested and brought before the Public Prosecutor's Office, where, in hearings with the Judge and the Prosecutor of the Specialized Directorate against Drug Trafficking, they were charged with the crimes of: trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics; and the use, construction, marketing and possession of semi-submarines or submarines.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
