On the afternoon of Friday, February 23, Colombian Police sources told EL TIEMPO that following an exchange of information with Europol officials, It was determined that 5.7 tons of cocaine seized in England at the beginning of the month were shipped to the port of Santa Marta..
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According to the source, the investigation is being carried out by the Anti-Narcotics Police, which is responsible for checks at ports and airports to identify activities related to drug trafficking.
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This quantity of cocaine (5,700 kilos) has been described as the largest cocaine ever produced in the UK”Class A drugs seized so far“, in that country.
The drugs, seized at the Port of Southampton and valued at approximately £450 million, were camouflaged in a cargo of export-grade plantains and bananas of the type produced in the Magdalena region or the Urabá region.
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“This unprecedented seizure will deal a major blow to the international organized crime cartels involved and prevent them from making huge profits.” NCA director Chris Farrimond stated in a press release.
Colombian authorities are currently at the Port of Santa Marta verifying the documents of the exporting company, the containers and the ship on which the drugs were transported offshore for more than three weeks and where the Port of Santa Marta is apparently located. final destination: Hamburg (Germany).
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“Drug smugglers were quite confident they could evade controls to send so much cocaine at once. This opened a line of investigation involving Port staff and the authorities themselves.“said the police source.
This newspaper has uncovered a Colombian Police report showing that the organized armed group ‘Clan del Golfo’ is taking advantage of banana exports to ship high-purity cocaine to European markets.
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And in this vein, the Police reported that those from the ‘Clan’ in the Nueva Colonia town of Turbo (Antioquia) took advantage of the packaging phase of the product, etc. Has detected.”They manage to smuggle cocaine hydrochloride into banana boxes while they are being loaded into the container.“.
The source stated that it has not yet been determined exactly which group of drug traffickers 5.7 tons of cocaine belongs to, but modus operandiIt was not ignored that the person who replaced the returned ‘Otoniel’ was from ‘Chiquito Malo’ Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, the head of the ‘Gulf clan’.
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On February 12, Colombian Police found a collection center for the ‘Gulf clan’ in the village of El Indio, in the municipality of Necoclí (Antioquia). 5.6 tons of alkaloids were seized It is the largest seizure in Colombia in the last six months.
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