04.05.2022, 14:36
Zitat:Colombian Navy Finds Clandestine Cartel Shipyard With 2 Narco Submarineshttps://www.newsweek.com/colombian-navy-...es-1690089
The Colombian Navy says it has uncovered a clandestine shipyard housing two "semi-submersible" vessels and other equipment for shipping tons of illegal drugs in a rural village of a municipality along the Pacific Ocean.
The makeshift shipyard was located in a rural area of Tumaco in the Nariño Department, the Navy said in a statement that alleges the Ivan Rios dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC) ran the operation. [...] In the Tumaco discovery, the Colombian Navy said "units of the Marine Infantry Brigade No. 4, with the support of troops from the Battalion Against Drug Trafficking No. 4, carried out a military operation to search and control the territory in the village of San Jacinto, located at the mouth of the Mira River, where they located the Illegal shipyard of 380 square meters [4,090 square feet], used by the Farc dissident group 'Estructura Iván Ríos' under the criminal command of alias 'Uriel,' for the construction of semi-submersibles in the Colombian-Ecuadorian border area." [...]
The Navy said the alleged drug traffickers were building two 82-foot semi-submersible vessels on the Colombian-Ecuadorian border and that they have a "capacity to transport up to four tons of narcotics each."
Schneemann