Police: Largest cocaine shipment in six years, links to neo-paramilitaries

Police: Largest cocaine shipment in six years, links to neo-paramilitaries
Apr 10, 2014 posted by Charlane Robinson

Police in Colombia’s Caribbean port city of Cartagena say they have seized their largest shipment of cocaine in six years and have linked the shipment to a neo-paramilitary group.

Police Commissioner Rodolfo Palomino told local media on Thursday the seven tons of cocaine is estimated to be worth $242 million in European drug markets.

FACTSHEET: Los Urabeños

Palomino said there were many indications that the drug shipment could belong to ‘Los Urabenos’ as it shared many attributes of a shipment of 2 tons of cocaine seized 15 days ago in the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in western Colombia.

“The drug traffickers marked the drug packages with the number 800 and the logo of a recognized multinational car brand,” he said.

Both are signatures used by Los Urabenos, a neo-paramilitary group that has violently taken control of the country’s Caribbean coast following the demobilization of the paramilitary umbrella group AUC.

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