According to the police chief, this cargo would be valued in the international market at approximately $ 100 million
Personnel from the Anti-Drug Investigation Directorate, with the support of Can Sasha, found 2.7 tons of drugs on the afternoon of Monday 15 in two containers that were intended to be shipped by sea to Europe.
The illicit shipment was camouflaged in boxes of bananas, whose final destination was Georgia and Greece, respectively.
Manuel Gómez, Antinárcotics chief of the Police in zone 8, reported that the discovery of the alkaloid in one of the ports of Guayaquil was achieved after analytical techniques of observation and profiling in a routine control in two containers.
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During the review process, staff requested the presence of the company representative and after that, both containers were opened.
After that, staff from the Canine Training Center, with Can Sasha, reviewed one of the containers and gave an alert of the possible presence of illegal substances. Then followed the intervention to the second container.
In one of the containers, 100 boxes between 13 and 14 rectangular-shaped brick-like packages of a whitish substance were detected.
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While the other container had 95 boxes between 13 and 14 boxes with a similar substance. Following field tests, a total of 2,719 transparent-wrapped rectangular packages tested positive for cocaine.
According to the police chief, this cargo would be valued in the international market at approximately 100 million dollars.
In this case, the Police detained a person who appears as a representative of the company until the investigations continued.
In this company it is the first time that a charge of this type has been detected, corroborated the police chief, who avoided revealing its origin.
According to police statistics, so far this year they have already seized 170 tons of drugs. Of that total, 46 tons were detected in Guayaquil ports. (I)
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