Moment Navy Raids Narco Submarine With Over 1t Of Coke

Story ByAna LacasaSub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyCentral European News 

Video Credit: CEN/@naval_peru

This is the moment the Peruvian Navy board a narco-submarine transporting over one tonne of cocaine.

The submarine was found off the coast of northern Peru 178 miles from the city of Talara by a Peruvian Navy patrol and four people were found inside it and arrested.

According to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Jorge Chavez, who is the coordinator of prosecutors against organised crime in Peru, “it was determined that the drug found in the submarine was cocaine after tests were done”.

Picture Credit: CEN/@naval_peru

He added: “We are weighing it. We are talking about more than one tonne of cocaine, but we are continuing to weigh it.”

In the video, the Navy patrol can be seen in the water when they find the 20-metre (65-foot) submarine. The authorities board the vessel and begin taking out rucksacks and sacks, reportedly filled with packets of cocaine. One of the suspects can be seen on the top of the submarine as the officers work to remove all the drugs.

The submarine was then towed back to the port of Paita, around 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) north of Lima and the four people on board, two of Colombian nationality, one Mexican man and an Ecuadorian man, were arrested.

Picture Credit: CEN/@naval_peru

Chavez explained that the submarine was filled with cocaine in Ecuadorian mangroves near the border with Peru.

He added: “This is the first submarine found in Peru. So far we know that it was going to Mexico.

“We are asking the navy to do a technical report on its construction.”

He said the materials used were designed to avoid radar detection.

According to a recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Peru is the second-largest producer of cocaine in the world, after Colombia.

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