Tuesday, January 25, 2022
During 2021, the Directorate of Carabineros achieved the seizure and recovery of 3.6 million hydrocarbons
The National Police, through the Directorate of Carabineros and Rural Security, within the framework of the Institutional Strategy for the Protection of Natural Capital (EICAN), carried out an important intervention in the La Guayacana district of the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño, where we managed to dismantle 4 pools where illegally obtained fuel was stored, likewise, 4 Martians (steel tanks used for the illicit processing of hydrocarbons) were destroyed, and the neutralization of 16,072 gallons of crude oil stolen from the Transandino Pipeline.
In this area there is abundant vegetation and broken ground, a suitable place to build illegal refineries, which are supplied by the illicit valves that some people install in the Transandean Pipeline, one of the most important in the country considering its 306 kilometers of extension and its capacity to transport hydrocarbons (close to 85,000 barrels per day). The men of the Carabineros Directorate arrived to this point of difficult access to stop the illicit distillation of hydrocarbons in these refineries, from which it is estimated that 40% of the fuel is extracted for the illegal sale and processing of cocaine hydrochloride and the waste or surplus from this process, which is estimated at 60%, would be being dumped into water sources and onto the area’s topsoil, causing serious environmental damage to natural resources, especially species of fauna and flora. wild.
In this sense, the seizure of hydrocarbons has become a dynamic agent for illicit crops, which in turn has been one of the criminal phenomena that has contributed the most to deforestation in the department of Nariño, according to official figures. estimates that by the year 2020 in Nariño about 5 thousand hectares of forest were deforested, in that same year 30,751 hectares of illicit crops were reported.
So far in 2021, the Police Directorate has achieved the seizure and recovery of more than 3.6 million gallons of hydrocarbons in the department of Nariño, among these operational cases six coordinated operations stand out, focused on mitigating fuel theft of the Transandean Pipeline, contributing to the reduction of cocaine production, and contributing to the protection of natural resources and the economic heritage of the country. Likewise, 95 artisanal refineries, 103 “Martians” and 110 “swimming pools” have been destroyed.
On the other hand, in this area there is a convergence of the organized armed groups Los Contadores, the Oliver Sinisterra front and the residual group Urías Rondón, who finance the seizure of crude oil and obtain criminal income, which in this case exceeds 100 million pesos, with This type of operation and the capture of the members of these armed groups, not only affect the criminal income that sponsors related crimes such as homicide and forced displacement, but we also mitigate deforestation and environmental pollution caused by these crimes.
The Directorate of Carabineros of the National Police will continue to deploy all its operational capabilities to capture people who benefit from illegal mining, destroy natural resources, affect coexistence and citizen security, and the economic heritage of all Colombians.
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