By order of Federal Court No. 1 of Jujuy, the furniture was reassembled for a monitored delivery in Buenos Aires. Three suspects were arrested.
The General Directorate of Customs discovered more than 70kg of cocaine in the Quiaca. The estimated value of the drug, which was found hidden inside beds and bedside tablesIt amounts to US$1,080,000. The drug had been brought into the country from bolivian by order, in a maneuver that pretended to be a moving.
Specialized agents of the Customs They were carrying out routine checks when a shipment from a logistics company caught their attention. consisted of nine orders for bedside tables and beds that generated some doubts, for which they decided to inspect it through the non-intrusive method of the scan van.
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Indeed, the scanner returned suspicious pictures of furniture, since inside there were double bottoms and rectangular packages. At the same time, the guide-can pairing present there also inspected it -the customs dog behaved in a manner compatible with the presence of drugs.
It was then that the staff notified the Federal Court No. 1 of Jujuywho ordered the retention and opening of packages. Opened the nine wooden furniture, they were found 69 hidden packets of cocaine: the final weighing gave a result of 72,383kg.
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Then, after the operation carried out by agents of the Customsthe Federal Prosecutor’s Office ordered recondition the furniture and replace drug packages with similar ones. The objective was to make a controlled delivery and that it seems that the shipment followed its itinerary until it reached its destination in Buenos Aires. There with the assistance of the National Gendarmerie Three people who had gone to remove the furniture from the offices of the transportation company were arrested.
The detainees were made available to the Federal Court No. 1 of Jujuy. Meanwhile, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office continue with the investigation.
Source: Ambito
