Cuba dismantled a criminal network of drug trafficking and blamed the United States Government for the impunity with which elements dedicated to this scourge act from that territory, which grows and develops in the world because it is a very lucrative business.
As a result of several police operations carried out, the authorities demonstrated that an emigrant in the US persisted in organizing the shipment to the national territory of synthetic cannabinoids for their subsequent commercialization in the capital.
Captain Arnal Ramos Maqueira, instructor of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation, told Cuban Television that the modus operandi used by the subject to introduce the drug was the masking of the substance in the double bottom of wallets. . He referred that the complexity of the investigation was influenced by the total impunity with which the Cuban émigré acted in the United States, who has not responded to the accusation.
“As a policy, every time a case is detected in which a Cuban émigré is linked and we obtain evidence, the US authorities are informed of the case. Previously, we had detected an operation in which the subject was the organizer and all the information on drug activity was sent to the US authorities, without us having received a response from the action against this subject," said Lieutenant Colonel Alejandro Lugo Fuentes, Section Chief of the Specialized Anti-Drug Confrontation Body of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI).
During the operation, 605 grams of synthetic cannabinoids were seized, 656,470 pesos, and as a result of the illicit activity, a sealing machine and empty envelopes were seized to mask and market the drug. Three electric motorcycles, 16 cell phones, two digital weights, a 22-caliber pistol with seven projectiles and several gold garments were also added.
The results of this case confirm the political will of the Cuban Government to uphold zero tolerance for this scourge, and to continuously strengthen the confrontation.
The growth of new psychoactive substances, such as synthetic drugs, invade every corner of the planet. Even in the US, the highest number of deaths in its history due to overdose of this type of substance was recorded. "Between April 2020 and the same month of 2021, more than 100,000 deaths were reported, most of them due to the specific opiate pandemic," said Colonel Héctor González Hernández, second chief of the DTI's specialized Anti-Drug Confrontation Body.
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