Luxury Jet with Over 1 Ton of Cocaine Belonging to CJNG Seized in Guatemala

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The packages were labeled "G1," a sign that would identify a Tumaco capo, in charge of moving the cargo by land to Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, where it was collected and transferred to the border with Venezuela. "The substance was camouflaged in cargo vehicles and transferred to Cúcuta, where, supposedly, it was collected to complete the ton and coordinate its passage to Venezuela," the statement from the Prosecutor's Office reads.

Likewise, it was ensured that this illicit activity was articulated by a structure of dissidents of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) with destination to Central America. Identified as "Nueva Marquetalia."

The aircraft in which they tried to transport the drugs is a G3 jet, which took off from a clandestine runway located in Venezuelan territory. International authorities detected the unit about to depart and forced it to land in Petén, Guatemala.

This document also indicated that the location of this "narcojet" was achieved in conjunction with the National Army and the US DEA, after the discovery of a drug trafficking complex in the rural area of ​​Tumaco in June of last year.

This process allowed the authorities to know the route and set up to process and remove tons of cocaine destined for Central America. Likewise, they found in the gigantic laboratory several tags used to identify the blocks of narcotics with the "G1" logo.

It should be noted that the criminal group, CJNG headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, has increased its presence in Central and South America, not only with the purchase and sale of merchandise in different countries but also with the establishment of criminal routes, relations with international groups, acquisition of criminal knowledge and presence through operators.

In this area of ​​the American continent, he would have generated an alliance with members of the FARC, with whom he would have trained on guerrilla and urban counter-guerrilla strategies, and with the so-called Criminal Gangs of Colombia (BACRIM) to agree on the production and transport of cocaine to the United States.

The Colombian Prosecutor's Office reported the discovery and seizure of a luxurious "narcojet" in Guatemala, which was transporting more than a ton of cocaine, which was allegedly received by members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).

While in Guatemala, the CJNG has been seen since 2014, when Sebastiana Cottón Vásquez, Doña Tana, one of the main operators of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested, so the organization led by Oseguera Cervantes began to weave a network of alliances for the transit of drugs.

Furthermore, the organization of the four letters has also been known to be linked with powerful people in Argentina. There, judicial authorities in the province of Buenos Aires began to investigate businessman Óscar Calvete Souza, who was allegedly one of the main connections of Los Cuinis, the armed wing of the CJNG.

For its part, in Uruguay, the presence of this cartel was also detected in April 2016, when the country's police arrested 11 members of the organization allegedly linked to the Panama Papers. They were identified by laundering money through the purchase of property in Punta de East and other areas with high purchasing power, with companies created expressly as Montella Global SA and Deltodo Enterprises.

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