Overview
- Authorities dismantled a transnational contraband ring with seven arrests and five more people tied to the case.
- Seized goods included 92,030 cigarette packs, 811 kilograms of coca leaves, seven vehicles, 17 phones, satellite gear, and $40,000 in cash, with an official value topping 310 million pesos.
- Investigators say a couple led a family-based structure that moved loads from Bolivia to stash sites in Salta and Tucumán using satellite communications to dodge controls.
- In a separate case, Federal Police stopped a truck near Santa Rosa in the Orán department and found more than one tonne of coca leaves hidden in a soy cargo, detaining two men.
- Operación Cascote Blanco, ordered by Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado after an informant’s tip, seized over 157 kilos of cocaine along with marijuana, weapons, money, and vehicles, and the probes continue to identify more members and routes.