The detainees arrived at the border together, but went separately to customs control. They also had $777,000 in cash.
The three women were detained with a federal criminal case being filed against them for the crime of drug smuggling provided for in art. 866 of the Customs Code.
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The specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs they avoided the smuggling of over 6 kg of cocaine that three women from Bolivia were trying to enter Argentina through the border crossing La Quiaca – Villazón.
The discovery was during routine checks carried out by customs personnel at the site. At one point three citizens of the neighboring country arrived on foot carrying hand luggage. The guards were struck by the fact that they arrived together at the pass frontierbut they came separately to the Customs postwith a difference of a few minutes in each entry.
When the first woman showed up, the agents noticed that the woman was nervous. She had tense expressions on her face and responded in monosyllables to the usual questions asked by the guards. After inspecting the bags with a non-intrusive control method, the customs scanner, they noticed some strange lumps under clothes of the passenger.
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Since she wore a kind of shawl that covered his neck and the sides of his body It was very difficult to determine what he was wearing under his clothes. That’s how an agent asked him to remove the accessory from her. At that moment the woman became even more tense and when the garment was removed customs personnel discovered that he was carrying two rectangular packages lined with fabric.
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Customs: the discovery of cocaine valued at more than $30 million
As they observed similar characteristics in the clothing of the second passengerthe agent of the Customs He also asked him to remove the garmentthe woman was carrying others two rectangular packages. The third Bolivian citizen He underwent the same checks and they discovered that he had two more packages.
When carrying out the narco test, the customs agents confirmed that it was 6,782 grams of cocaine valued at $35,600,402. Customs seized the drugs and $777,000 in cash that they carried among their belongings.
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The three women they were detained a federal criminal case was being filed against him for the crime of drug smuggling provided for in the art. 866 of the Customs Code. The agents of the Customs they gave intervention to the Jujuy Federal Fiscal Unit and to Federal Court of Guarantees of Jujuy No. 1.
Source: Ambito
