Colombia: 112-kilo methamphetamine shipment seized at port

The Colombian authorities They seized in the port of Buenaventura, the country’s main port on the Pacific, a shipment of 112 kilos of methamphetamines that were attached to a ship that had arrived from Mexico and was heading to China, the Prosecutor’s Office reported on Saturday.

The Specialized Directorate against Drug Trafficking and the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office learned of “information about a methamphetamine shipment which was going to be sent on a cargo ship, which intended to leave the port of Buenaventura bound for China“, the institution detailed in a statement.

The investigators reported this situation to the Navy, which carried out an inspection and found the cache attached to the underwater part of the vessel, “exactly in the cooling system”.

The drug was hidden in five bags and “The evidence indicates that the ship came from Mexico and was in transit at the Buenaventura maritime terminal, on its way to Asia.“, the information added.

Source: Gestion

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