Ecuador’s record seizure, with an estimated value of approx billion dollars on international markets, It will be destroyed using the encapsulation technique, which involves grinding cocaine and mixing it with cement, sand and other elements until its properties are neutralized.
The process to eliminate the 21.5 tons of cocaine will take approximately eleven hours, with approximately two tons of drugs passing through this process, a rate that, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs It is sixteen times faster than combustion and friendlier to the environment.
The drug arrived early Thursday morning at the point where it will be encapsulated and neutralized, after being transported in a heavy trailer from the place where it was found, in the canton (municipality) of Vinces, in the tropical region. Los Rios Province.
The seizure took place during an operation by the Armed Forces, which took several hours to extract the bags from the warehouse where this large shipment of drugs was stored, which exceeded the almost 12 tons of cocaine seized. Guayaquil in 2016.
During the same operation, they seized nearly seventeen firearms 5,400 bullets of different calibers and fourteen chargers, among others.
Because it is a transit point to the port city of Guayaquil and other points on the coast of Ecuador, authorities assume that this warehouse was a major drug collection point for some drug trafficking structure, which would later transfer it to the collection points. to North America or Europe.
They do not rule out that even this organization used ‘narco planes’ to send drugs to North America.
The National Director of the Anti-Narcotics Investigation of the Ecuadorian Police, William Villarroelexplained that the seized blocks of cocaine had up to six different brands, probably to identify the different criminal structures for which the cocaine was allegedly intended.
Source: El heraldo
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