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Ecuador: 4,800 cans of tuna cocaine seized

Ecuadorian forces catch gang trying to smuggle cocaine through tuna cans | Font: Ecuador Police

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Ecuador’s national police confiscated a shipment of cocaine packaged in 4,800 tuna cans, a seizure almost identical to that made the day before by Colombia in the department of Nariño, which borders the northern country.

Opening medicine occurred during a search of property in the city of Manta, the capital of the coastal province of Manabi, where, according to Ecuadorian Police in social networks.

According to the police report, the property was allegedly used “as a temporary collection center for the storage and conditioning of drugs.”

The officers speculate that they were later “sent overseas in containers of similar products to evade police control.”

Similar case in Colombia

This capture is very similar to the one recently taken in Colombiawhere 744 kg cocaine hidden in cans of tuna, Colombian prosecutors said on Thursday.

The operation was carried out in a house in Ipiales, a city located on the border with Ecuadorwhere 100 cartons containing cans of cocaine were found.

According to investigators, the cargo was supposed to be delivered to the port of Cartagena de Indias in the Caribbean, from where it was supposedly sent to Europe.

According to data compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its latest World Report on Drugs and Crime, Ecuador became the third country with the most drug seizures in the world in 2021, behind only Colombia and the United States . , drugs.

According to official government figures, 210 tons of drugs were seized in Ecuador in 2021, the highest record in the country’s history, which could be broken again this year, ending the first semester with nearly 100 tons seized. (EFE)

Source: RPP

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