This afternoon of Tuesday, June 25, the Carabineros and Environmental Protection Police reported on an operation carried out against the organized armed group ‘clan del Golfo’.
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According to Carabineros, he managed to destroy “illegal mining infrastructure and affecting a criminal income of 7,500 million pesos annuallyin compliance with Sentence T-622 that protects the Atrato River”.
The operation was carried out in a coordinated manner between the Police and the Military Forces, in the vicinity of the municipality of Río Quito, San Isidro sector.
In this area, the ‘Héroes de Jesús Carretera’ substructure, of the ‘Gulf clan’, which commits crimes in Chocó, is present.
As a result of the intervention of the Public Force, the intervention of 7 mining production units was achieved, the destruction of 7 dragons, an excavator, 14 industrial engines, 7 motor pumps and 7 energy generating engines.
“This operation has had a significant impact on the criminal finances of the ‘Gulf clan,’ which was dedicated to stimulating and levying illegal miners by charging 20 percent of the commercial value of the extracted mineral“said General William Castaño Ramos, director of Carabineros and Environmental Protection.
Along these lines, General Castaño added that “The destroyed elements had a productive capacity of approximately 12,480 grams of gold per monthgenerating a criminal income of 7,500 million pesos annually.”
The machinery was over the waters of the Atrato River.
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River subject to protection rights
Likewise, the director of Carabineros pointed out that the operation generates the loss of direct income, and thus, the ‘Gulf clan’ has stopped receiving profits related to the transportation, the commercialization of the mineral and the chemical agents used in the mining production.
The environmental impact of this operation is also aimed at complying with Sentence T-622 of 2016, issued by the Constitutional Court, which recognizes the Atrato River, its basin and tributaries, as an entity subject to rights to protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration. With this operation, not only the environment is protected, but also local communities, mitigating the adverse impact of illegal mining on the water resources and biodiversity of the region.
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