Carlos Denvers, the Nationwide Drug Deal with an eye on Directorate’s communications chief, told a press convention that authorities had came across 320 bags containing some 9,528 kilograms of cocaine, which they estimated turned into as soon as valued at some $250 million
Reuters
07 December, 2024, 10:35 am
Final modified: 07 December, 2024, 10:Forty five am
The Dominican Republic on Friday reported its largest ever cocaine seizure, pronouncing it came across some 9.5 metric a total lot cocaine hidden in a banana cargo that arrived at a port in Santo Domingo, the capital.
Carlos Denvers, the Nationwide Drug Deal with an eye on Directorate’s communications chief, told a press convention that authorities had came across 320 bags containing some 9,528 kilograms of cocaine, which they estimated turned into as soon as valued at some $250 million.
“Early investigations tag that a container carrying bananas arrived from Guatemala,” Denvers acknowledged. “Many unknown other folk tried to switch the medication to at least one other container that can most likely well be shipped on a vessel to Belgium.”
He acknowledged it turned into as soon as the country’s largest seizure, topping a 2,580-kg seizure in 2006 in Santo Domingo’s Caucedo port, the identical port where the latest cargo turned into as soon as came across.
InSight Crime, a foundation that analyzes organized crime, has warned that file-breaking seizures made this twelve months counsel the Caribbean is resurfacing as a serious trafficking route from Colombia to Europe, where consumption is estimated to indulge in better than doubled between 2011 and closing twelve months.
“As seek records from grows, traffickers are ramping up efforts to meet it, turning to the Caribbean as an supreme conduit for smuggling cocaine to Europe,” InSight Crime acknowledged in an analysis in slack November, noting that well-known Dominican transport hubs present broad opportunities to traffickers.
