At the mouth of the Atrato River in the Urabá region in Chocó, 5.4 tons of drugs were found by troops.
This finding damaged by $ 185 million the finances of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo that commits crimes in the subregion of the Gulf of Urabá.
This result prevented more than 13 million doses of cocaine from being marketed in international illegal markets.
A severe blow to the financial structures of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo, was dealt by authorities in Colombia, Panama and the United States, when they found an illegal hideout with 5.4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride in the Ciénaga Limón sector, Department of Chocó, ready to be sent to Central America.
Units of the National Service air-sea of Panama –SENAN-, with intelligence of the Navy of Colombia and the National Police, detect a boat Go Fast, which noticing the work of the panamanian authorities, undertook escaped for colombian waters towards the mouth of the Atrato river in the Urabá region in Chocó. Immediately aero-naval surface units deployed and in the sectors of Mouth Tarena and the Swamp Limon they worked and monitored. Units of the Urabá Coast Guard Station in the same way arrived at the site and, thanks to the expertise and professionalism of its crew in carrying out the detailed inspection in this forested area of the country, they find the suspicious ship with 81 sacks and another 147 sacks hidden among the vegetation, which contained 5,463 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride inside.
In the course of the operation, troops of the Navy River Battalion No.16 and the 17th Brigade of the National Army were in the same way deployed on the ground to prevent possible attacks by Organized Armed Groups.
The narcotics found were reportedly transported in several ships bound for Costa Rica, where they would be distributed through the contamination of ships with containers to North America, Europe and Asia.
With these important results in the frontal fight against drug trafficking, it was possible to prevent the entry of more than $ 185 million into the financial structures of this group that commits crimes in the subregion of the Gulf of Urabá, product of the trafficking of more than 13 million doses of the narcotic in the illegal international markets.
Source: press-Colombian Navy
