It is estimated that with the amount found, 2,500 kilos of MDMA could have been produced, for which its potential value amounts to more than US$112 million.
The General Directorate of Customs destroyed 25,080 kilos of methylaminea controlled merchandise under the National Registry of Chemical Precursorswhich can be used to make drugs such as MDMA, ecstasy and synthetic cathinones (also called “bath salts”) or to obtain other chemical precursors such as ephedrine.
It is estimated that with the amount of said substance found, they could have produced 2,500 kilos of MDMAso your potential value amounts to more than US$112 million. It should be noted, there is no history of destruction of a similar volume of chemical precursor in the history of Customs.
Customs
In this regard, the Director General of Customs, William Michelpointed out: “We are convinced of what we do: this merchandise that was intended to enter the country irregularly it must be destroyed lest it end up in the wrong hands. With this 72 million doses of synthetic drugs could be generated”.
How was this substance found?
The substance, which was in aqueous solution at 40%was withdrawn by the General Directorate of Customs of the lag area of the port terminal exolganin South Dock. She was inside a container in 32 pallets with 128 drums full of the solution with methylamine.
So, for the destruction of merchandise out of order it was necessary to go to the liquid sector of a specialized plantin the city of San Lorenzo (Province of Santa Fe), and unload the drums one by one in the liquid enclosure, later injected into a furnace for incineration.
Source: Ambito
