Over 1.6 tons cocaine bound for Dubai, which had been hidden in sacks of animal feed, was seized in Rosario, Argentina on Friday, confirming once again that the Latin American country’s ports are becoming increasingly important in international drug trafficking.
According to the relevant information, ten people, all its citizens Argentinianwere arrested and taken into custody as part of the police operation that took place overnight from Thursday to Friday at various locations, including warehouses in Rosario (310 km from Buenos Aires), the third largest city in the Latin American country, where the main export port of the agri-food sector in the Atlantic.
“The 1,658 kilograms of cocaine had a commercial value of approximately $60 million”, Commissioner Mariano Jufra, head of the drug prosecution service of the federal police, explained to the press. Firearms, large displacement cars and liquid were also seized.
The drugs were hidden in sacks of corn, intended to be used as cattle feed, and were to be loaded onto a 150-tonne grain container to be transported to Dubaiin the United Arab Emirates.
Cocaine may have ‘originated in Colombia’, the country that produces the largest amount of this drug in the world. About 50 kilograms of this cargo was destined for the local market, according to police.
Rosario (1.5 million inhabitants) is considered a critical hub for drug trafficking in Argentina. It’s also the urban center with the worst violent crime problem, recording a homicide rate of 13 per 100,000 residents — in other words, three times the national average.
Specialists and judicial specialists in the fight against drugs recently emphasize that although cocaine comes mainly from the Colombia-Peru-Bolivia triangle, Argentina is becoming increasingly important for international smuggling because of its ports, the quality of its chemical components (for drug production) and the money laundering possibilities that exist.
Source: News Beast
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