Two cops busted with a tonne of cocaine
June 21st, 2011 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANSBuenos Aires, June 21 (IANS/EFE) Argentina’s border police arrested two of their own officers found to be smuggling 966 kg of cocaine in a vehicle, authorities said Monday.
The drug was hidden beneath the floorboard of a van and being transported by two men, both of whom are “very young, recently incorporated” into the police force, Security Minister Nilda Garre said at a press conference.
The two policemen will be expelled as quickly as possible, Garre said.
The cocaine, worth an estimated $10 million, was seized at a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Aguaray, 12 km from the border with Bolivia.
“There’s an important drug transport (operation in the area), no doubt about it,” acknowledged the minister, who - however - emphasized that the seized substance had not yet been analysed in detail and so authorities could not confirm its origin.
–IANS/EFE
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