SANTO DOMINGO. The National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) seized last night a stash of 935 kilograms of cocaine at the Caucedo Multimodal Port in Boca Chica. This was the third seizure made by the drug agency at the container terminal in the last three years.The seizure was carried out in coordination with the Anti-Narcotics Department of Venezuela.

The president of the DNCD, Major General Rolando Rosado Mateo, reported in a statement issued by his spokesperson Roberto Lebron that the drug was found in a container that was in transit to Spain, from Venezuela.

The official said that the drugs were found in a container that had been "carefully prepared to fool the control mechanisms, but it was impossible because the intelligence agencies were following this case for two months", which kept the drugs from reaching their destination.

Rosado Mateo went to the container terminal at 9 o'clock last night to direct the operations of the seizure, a process initiated by the director of the Joint Centers of Information and Coordination (CICC), General Jose Eugenio Matos de la Cruz, accompanied by a team of officials from the DNCD headquarters.

The DNCD president announced that in the next few hours there would be arrests in the country as well as in Venezuela and at the final destination.

This is the third big seizure that the DNCD has carried out in Punta Caucedo in the last three years, one of them for a little more than 2500 kilos of cocaine in September 2006.

"This is the result of a combined operation that had been going on for a little more than two months, which is to say the DNCD received information from other international agencies and because of this, this load has been seized before the container it was in was reshipped", commented Rosado Mateo.

The cocaine shipment was transferred last night to the headquarters of the DNCD and today it will be verified in the National Institute of Forensic Science (INACIF) and later stored in the safe room.

De Diario Libre