A shipment of 255 kilos of cocaine was seized by the Ecuadorian National Police when it was being transported by road in a truck, according to what the State security force reported on Thursday.
The drug was hidden in a false bottom of the truck and packaged in 221 rectangular blocks that bore the distinctive “488” as a brand of the drug trafficking organization to which they belong.
The seizure was made when the truck was traveling through the Amazonian province of Pastaza, located in the southeast of the country.
Ecuador was the third country that seized the most drugs in the world during 2021, only surpassed by Colombia and the United States, according to data compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its latest World Report on Drugs and Crime. drugs.
According to official government figures, Ecuador seized 210 tons of drugs in 2021, which was the highest record in the country’s history, which can be broken again this year, having closed the first semester with nearly 100 tons seized. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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