Julio Fernández, head of the National Customs Directorate.
The shipments of large volumes of cocaine to Europe, officially explained (until recently) with the argument that control technology was lacking, was buried this time. And it is because of the evidence that shows that, even with recently installed modern scanners, the delivery of 10 tons of drugs to Germany could not be aborted.
The head of the National Customs Directorate, Julio Fernández, admitted in an interview on the Fuego Cruzado program, broadcast by the GEN/Nación Media channel, that the data is compelling: the explanation this time is the corruption of officials.
“We already know the image analysis of the time period of the shipment and we found that there is a container that was not reported. The technology did not fail, the failure was human.
We can take that responsibility… That load (of cocaine) leaves 35 days after having the full scan”Fernandez said.
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EVIL OF MANY…
The head of Customs argued that the drama represented by large drug shipments to first world markets affects many countries in the region, as well as those that receive shipments of drugs for consumption.
“Contextualizing, we are talking about the fact that in Panama (fell) seventy tons, they have more (shipping) movement than our country. Ecuador too, we are talking about organized crime that continues to mobilize throughout the entire region… The receiving countries do not have the capacity to verify everything either, in Europe the movement of containers is 12 million, and only 45 thousand are verified “he stressed.
THE PLOT OF OFFICIALS
Names of Customs officials who were on the container control day, their working hours, the scan images that were made, those that were not made, everything is registered and made available to the Public Ministry, he said. the customs officer.
“We have the names of the company (among whose products the drug was sent), of the department, of the officials who participated, whose names we cannot yet disclose… Obviously, the organized crime to which the ten tons of cocaine belongs is going to look for ensure”, stressed Fernández.
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HOW DID THEY CATCH?
According to reports from the German police to their peers in Paraguay, the detection of the drug coming from our country was fortuitous, through the interception of calls and messages. In them, the dialogues between Paraguayan referents and the German connection revealed, even in a smug tone, that they successfully circumvented the Paraguayan control system.
“This payload fell through intelligence reporting and not scanning, we are sorry this has happened. We have improved significantly (technologically). We detect vulnerabilities in the human link. The scanner captured the contamination, the problem was human”Julio Fernández admitted.
The official pointed out that drug trafficking from our country dates back a long time and that the fight is complex. It was when he was consulted about the large volumes that were sent in recent years, and that they did not decrease but increased.
