Her principles Venezuelan seized nearly four tonnes’cocaine The highest purity of “in recent days, as part of a business baptized” Relámpago “, in the western part of the country, near the border with Colombia, Interior Minister Dosdado Campilio announced yesterday.
After the confiscation of 5.4 tonnes of cocaine in mid -March in the same business, the quantities of cocaine found by authorities in Venezuela thus touched the ten tonnes.
Quantity of 2,619 pounds found buried in islet on Lake Maracimo (Sulia, west) and Second, 1,240 kg, in a truck.
Overall, it is “9,866kg of drugs (…) we seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs in just one business and we have not yet finished,” the minister said, clarifying that in a circuit that was operating and distributing drugs from her. Colombia Timbo area In Soulia there were mixed businessmen, judges and prosecutors.
Mr Campoi has shown visual material from the location business and seizure of drugs by masked police officers with the help of specially trained dogs.
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Were made at least twelve arrestsincluding six mayors Communities in the state of Soulia, according to Mr Campilo.
When he announced the first seizure in mid -March, he explained that cocaine had been produced in Colombia and was transported with sailing and improvised semi -staining vessels to Lake Marakibpo, the largest in Latin America, which flows into the Caribbean Sea.