Fanb seized 1,240 kilograms of cocaine in machiques during operation «Catatumbo lightning»

A citizen was arrested this Saturday, March 15 in the Machiques Municipality of Perijá of the Zulia state when he moved in a 350 truck with 31 asphalt mantle rolls impregnated with cocaine hydrochloride.

The Operational Strategic Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez, published the official information on his Instagram account, and He said that it is 1,240 kilograms of the illegal substance.

He also stated that this arrest and seizure of the drug was given within the framework of the operation «Catatumbo lightning.»

This operation is the same mentioned by the Minister of Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, this Friday, A plan in which Zulian mayors Jorge Nava, Alberto Sobalvarro, Danilo Añez and Fernando Loaiza Chacón were detained, all accused of belonging to a drug trafficking network.

In the context of it, recently another 5,407 kg of cocaine were seized and three logistics supply centers were dismantled, according to the Rondón hair report.