Commandos of the National Army dismantled a complex for the distillation of petroleum that produced more than 16 thousand gallons a week.
Through the continuous development of operations of stability, made for the protection of the strategic resources of the State, and in the framework of the Operational Divisions Plan Comuneros, troops of the National Army, found in the rural area of the municipality of Tib煤, Norte de Santander, three illegal refineries, which would have become part of the financial system of the illicit Organised Armed Group, GAO, Eln, front of Juan Fernando Porras Martinez.
The military operation aimed at neutralizing the theft of fuels was carried out in a rural area of the municipality of Tib煤, where the soldiers of the National Army found the illicit refineries, which stored 20,000 gallons of stolen petroleum inside.
Source: Press - National Army