More than 100 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride were seized in Turbo, Antioquia

The Colombian Navy reported, on Sunday, April 10, that in the course of a joint operation with the National Army, they managed to seize more than 140 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that were transported by two Colombian subjects, aboard a Go Fast type boat in the Gulf of Urabá.

In this way, the institution pointed out that this important result occurred when the Urabá Coast Guard Station, through the Integrated System of Control, Traffic and Maritime and River Surveillance, detected a suspicious vessel that would have set sail from a sector known as El Uno and apparently would be transporting packages with substances narcotic drugs.

Upon learning the information, the troops of the National Army carried out a ground closure at Punta Cayman in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia, while the crew members of the Coast Guard began the pursuit and subsequent interdiction of the boat.

At that time, and noticing the presence of the authorities, the subjects who were crewing the vessel proceeded to throw the six suspicious sacks they were carrying into the sea, not without preventing the authorities from recovering them.

Once this was achieved, the subjects were transported to the facilities of the Urabá Coast Guard Station, where, in coordination with the National Police, the Homologated Preliminary Identification Tests (PIPH) were carried out on the recovered material, showing positive for 141 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride and 993 grams of marijuana. Communications equipment and 97 gallons of gasoline were also seized during the operation.

The authorities also announced that, according to intelligence information, the cache would be destined for Central America. The information also specified that the material seized and the subjects captured were placed at the disposal of the competent authorities to begin their prosecution process.

In the midst of the Argenta strategy, the authorities captured and prosecuted nine people who would be involved in money laundering to benefit the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), also known as the Gulf Clan. The defendants would be grouped under an illegal organization that, apparently, received and had money that the said criminal structure obtained from forced displacement, extortion, drug trafficking, among other illicit conduct.

The Specialized Directorate Against Money Laundering and the Specialized Directorate for Extinction of Domain Rights of the Public Prosecutor's Office, in coordination with the Criminal Investigation Directorate (DIJIN) of the National Police, established that the defendants would have lent their names to acquire movable property, real estate and livestock. In addition, front companies were set up to give the appearance of legality to resources and make them circulate in the national financial system.

These transactions apparently managed to launder more than 33 billion pesos. The alleged members of the network were charged with the crimes of illicit enrichment of individuals, a concert to commit crimes for the purpose of money laundering, and advice to organized criminal groups and organized armed groups.

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