This substance was intended to be packaged in cots, as a camouflage strategy, to be transported through passes and irregular land roads in the border area. According to estimates from the Anti-Narcotics Directorate, The shipment would reach a value of 802 million pesos in the production area, which would amount to 3.7 million dollars in the international market. With this seizure, the marketing of 860 thousand doses of this dangerous drug was prevented.
Through investigative and operational coordination, within the framework of binational cooperation with Ecuador against drug trafficking, a possible connection of a transnational multicrime organization that would use labels with the logo of a sports club in Guayaquil was detected. During the search and raid, nearly 1,000 of these labels were collected.
The investigation reveals that binational criminal organizations They seek to convert the municipality of Buesaco into an axis of heroin production and trafficking, taking advantage of the fact that it has an average height of over 2,000 meters above sea level.. In addition, it is an area with a forested and mountainous condition, difficult to access due to its topographic characteristics, which would allow the planting of poppy crops and the processing of the alkaloid.
“This operation is part of the comprehensive offensive against drug trafficking, especially against the heroin phenomenon that we have detected on the border with the sister country of Ecuador, with which we have been working jointly, in coordination with the DEA,” said the general director of the National Police, General William René Salamanca Ramírez.
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