The amount of ammunition and weapons missing from the Colombian Army is far smaller than the figures released by President Gustavo Petro this week, according to a military report seen by Reuters, which also contradicts his claims about the loss of Israeli anti-tank missiles.
Petro stated on Tuesday (30) that more than 1.6 million bullets disappeared from two military bases in the provinces of Cundinamarca and La Guajira, in addition to thousands of explosive ammunition, two Spike missiles and 37 Nimrod missiles.
However, the report cited by Petro lists 131,000 missing bullets and just under 6,000 explosive munitions. It does not mention any missing missiles.
The Presidency and the Ministry of Defense declined to comment.
Two senior military sources told Reuters that the president read the wrong column of the report and that was why he gave incorrect numbers.
General Helder Giraldo, commander of the Colombian Army, said an investigation had been opened to determine the correct amount of missing ammunition, but denied that missiles were lost.
“It’s not about covering up reality,” Giraldo told reporters on Thursday night, adding that members of the Colombian Army were allegedly involved in selling weapons to “organized armed groups in the country.”
(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta)
Source: CNN Brasil
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