In the kidnapping of cocaine on the Marshall Islands ship, docked in the port of the Vicentin company in San Lorenzo-Santa Fe Public-Lto the participation of the security forces was zero relevance. The reality of the story is that a barge provided food to the CECI (such the name of the ship), which were deposited in gigantic ice cream shops available to feed 21 crew for 20 days. In one of those ice cream makers, the flesh, the captain of the CECI discovered harined dust that, immediately, suspected it was drugs.
The captain contacted the shipowner, the one who handled the ship, and then with a lawyer related to the Financial Information Unit (FIU), and then the lawyer called prosecutor Claudio Kishimoto. The operation was thus launched that established that they were 482 kilos of cocaine in 16 different packages. The minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, launched to make her usual show awarding some merit and even got into a boat to go to the ship to take some photos. The judicial authorities warned him that this was to violate the rules to preserve the scene and then went to a boat around the CECI. Bullrich did not explain how such a amount of cocaine entered Argentina, presumably from Bolivia or Peru, perhaps via Paraguay.
Origin and destination
As is obvious, the research center becomes now to establish where cocaine came and where I went. DI enter the 16 packages, in 15 of them there were 26 cocaine bricks, and in a lump there were two GPS brand Garmin, a couple of small beacons that would light in the water, a network and several life jackets. That is, the cocaine was going to be thrown into the water and the narcos would be collected, presumably with a boat.
Today, the suspicion of the researchers is that it is a cargo managed by the largest Brazilian band, the first capital command (PCC), which would collect the cargo on the outskirts of the port of Montevideo. From there you dispatch different destinations, mainly European. In the Atlantic, they have become difficult to control the ports of Brazil and now it became Montevideo – without directing the port – a transit base. The area is controlled by the PCC, the fierce band that manages prisons in Brazil and Paraguay.
As is obvious, cocaine came from Bolivia or Peru, perhaps through Paraguay, where the PCC also has a huge weight. The bricks have the your name brand, with the drawing of a crown, and the bags were tightly closed, that is, the water would not enter in any way.
The usual show
On Thursday afternoon, 20 of the 21 crew members of the CECI, all Filipinos were arrested. The only one who is not detained is the captain because the prosecutor Kishimoto considered that he made the complaint and had no logic that self -influts. The captain was taken by a translator, and reported all the way he saw the dust and the decision to make the complaint. Asked if he suspected any of the members of the crew, he said no, but there is indeed a suspect with access to the three gigantic ice cream makers: that of meat, fish and fruits and vegetables.
The real thing is that the captain was communicated with the shipowner; This with the lawyer Juan Lafontana, linked to the FIU, and Lafontana called the prosecutor. Kischimoto, along with his attachment, Francisco Werner, launched the prefecture and customs and achieved the search warrant issued by Judge Carlos Vera Barros. Justice has jurisdiction because the CECI was docked in the port of Vicentin carrying Sunflower shells
The things were surprising: they thought they were very little amount, then they believed they were a couple of kilos and when Prefecture, Customs and the IIF – today by the prosecutor Paul Starc – they made the count, they met the 482 kilos.
The unusual came later. The minister traveled to Santa Fé and tried to capitalize on the finding, in which The security forces had no merit: who discovered the cargo was the captain. But in addition, in any case, Bullrich should have explained how the drug entered Argentina, passing the borders that guard the security forces that she drives. There are few who consider that border control has weakened because a good part of the gendarmes are in Buenos Aires by hitting retirees every Wednesday.
The future of the cause
The next step will be to confirm the international links behind the shipment. The Procunar, a procurement specialized in the fight against drug trafficking, will surely make the consultations in that area with the agencies of other countries. As is known, there is already a history of planes from Bolivia that run out of fuel and land in a Santa Fe field or town.
From the local point of view, the gaze will be set in the barge that raised the groceries to the CECI. It should not be so difficult to establish how the provision of food was in which cocaine was involved. The topic will be to find sufficient evidence. Precisely one of the problems is that those who really handle the drug are never found: a pilot, a truck driver, who was in the barge, some sailor, end up detained. Little and nothing.
