After a Bolivian citizen was detained in Paraguay, After finding, in the tanker truck he was driving, nine brick-shaped packages with cocaine, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the Prosecutor’s Office and members of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn) raided a transportation company located south of the city.
The operation was carried out from the morning of this Wednesday and lasted until the afternoon; Meanwhile, an official report is awaited from the authorities that carried out the raid, since in a brief contact with the prosecutor Enrique Cossio, indicated that operations continued.
The Bolivian citizen who was detained in Paraguay was driving one of the 13 tanker trucks that entered the territory of the neighboring country, but during the search, they detected in a compartment, located at the back of the tanker, the nine brick-shaped packages with whitish substance, the same one that when subjected to a field test gave positive for cocaine.
The total weight of the drugs seized was approximately ten kilos, so the 47-year-old driver was referred to the competent authorities, according to Paraguayan media.
The national director of Tax Revenue of Paraguay, Oscar Orué, indicated that the documentation and information, both of the driver and the transportation company for the transfer of liquefied gas, was sent to all relevant authorities for investigation. who else would be linked to drug trafficking.
He stressed that the driver, in his defense, at the time of his arrest, assured that he had no knowledge of the existence of the drug in the tank, Therefore, he believed that during the trip, during some of his rest periods, the truck was contaminated.
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Bolivian falls in Paraguay with 10 kilos of drugs in a tanker he was driving
The tanker was part of a caravan of 13 trucks that entered Paraguay on Saturday. The drugs were found in a compartment in the rear of the vehicle.
