The The national army achieved the seizure of 6,721 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which exceeds 226 million dollars in the international market, in development of combined operations with authorities of Spain, the United States, Panama, the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic.
The first operations took place between the Colombian Navy and the National Aeronaval Service of Panamawhich allowed the interdiction of a boat with 141 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride northeast of El Porvenir, Comarca Guna Yala.
There, a go fast type boat was located that was hidden among the mangroves with 814 kilograms of this illicit substance in the Escribano perimeter, Costa Arriba de Colón, in the Caribbean central.
In another operation carried out with authorities from Spain and UK, 715 kilograms of cocaine were seized during the inspection of a Maltese-flagged vessel, in the port of Algeciras – Spain; Of which, 417 kilograms were hidden in a compartment on the deck and another 298 kilograms in the hull of the boat.
With the United Kingdom, important results were also achieved in the Port of Southampton – England. The first during the inspection of a Liberian-flagged motor ship, where 96 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride were seized, and later, 480 kilograms of the drug were found inside two containers that were being transported aboard a Portuguese-flagged vessel.
The Navy, together with the Joint Interagency Task Force of the Southern Command of the USAfive maritime interdiction operations were carried out in which 2,847 kilograms of cocaine transported in speedboats were seized, at the time they were intended to be trafficked to different countries in Central and North America.
Finally, next to the Dominican Republic Navythe National Directorate against Drugs and JIAFTS, achieved the maritime interdiction of three speedboats with 630, 500 and 498 kilograms of cocaine, which were transported from Colombia to this country.
So far in 2022, within the framework of international cooperation agreements, the Navy has managed to prevent the trafficking of more than 67 tons of seized illicit substances.