On 22 November the patrol Loon IV, Supervisory Customs Revenue Agency, 4,000 kg of hashish seized at sea about 60 nautical miles southeast of the city of Cartagena.
The operation began about 16.00 hours when naval Tax Agency detected a suspicious boat, a motor yacht of 12 meters.
Loon IV officials boarded the vessel and found that on the cover and in open spaces in the same accumulated a lot of bundles with hashish.
He also found that most of its six crew and the ship's owner had numerous criminal record for drug smuggling.
The drug was divided into 128 bundles of burlap with a total weight of 4,000 kilograms, which would have been in the black market value of EUR 5,528,000.00.
The drug, six men and the boat operated have been conducted to Cartagena and made available to the examining magistrate in Cartagena guard functions.
Are continuing investigations to identify and arrest the other members of the organization.
Source: Agencia Tributaria